David Levithan Quotes - Page 14

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• I find I very rarely live up to my words. And since you know me primarily through my words, there are oh so many ways I can disappoint.

  David Levithan

  Way, Disappoint, Know Me

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.200, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It's only a game if there is an absence of meaning. And we've already gone too far for that.

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  Games, Gone, Absence

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.180, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be.

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  Want, Be Careful, Careful

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.122, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I want my own books to have their own shelves," you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together.

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  Book, Together, Would Be

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.23, Macmillan

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• There are times when I worry that I've already lost myself. That is, that my self is so inseparable from being with you that if we were to separate, I would no longer be. I save this thought for when I feel the darkest discontent. I never meant to depend so much on someone else.

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  Self, Worry, Lost

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.160, Macmillan

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• You made me lose my appetite, Boomer." "My mom tells me that all the time. Your family must be just like mine!

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  Mom, Made, Appetite

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• We found out a long time ago that we weren’t meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of me still fell in hope with him.

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  Falling In Love, Long, Found

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.5, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence of yourself that says it better than you ever could?

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  Giving, Trying, Way

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.17, Egmont UK

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• There has to be a moment at the beginning where you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself. If the moment doesn’t pass, that’s it—you’re done. And if the moment does pass, it never goes that far. It stands in the distance, ready for whenever you want it back. Sometimes it’s even there when you thought you were searching for something else, like an escape route, or your lovers’ face.

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  Distance, Feelings, Doe

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• But we comforted ourselves with what we really meant to say, which was: "I don't normally feel this good about what I'm doing." Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.

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  Feelings, Moments, That Moment

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.5, Macmillan

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• me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly.” -Will Grayson (pg. 66)

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  Mom, Giving, Advice

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• I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else.

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  Hurt, New Relationship, Wonder

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.59, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I hope suffering don't exist.

  David Levithan

  Suffering

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• placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.

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  Lying, Sometimes, Placid

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• And still, for all the jealously, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that we're together. That someone like me could find someone like you --- it renders me wordless. Because surely words would conspire against such luck, would protest the unlikelihood of such a turn of events.

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  Doubt, Luck, Together

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.75, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• arrears, n. My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that. "It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

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  Mistake, Would Be, Lapses

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• me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth.

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  Knows, Tied

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.79, Penguin

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• In school, the year was the marker. Fifth grade. Senior year of high school. Sophomore year of college. Then after, the jobs were the marker. That office. This desk. But now that school is over and I've been working at the same place in the same office at the same desk for longer than I can truly believe, I realize: You have become the marker. This is your era. And it's only if it goes on and on that will have to look for other ways to identify the time.

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  Senior, Jobs, Believe

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.179, Macmillan

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• Hello, my name is ees Lebkuchen Spice, and I vant to show you my coooooookies.

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  Names, Spices, Hello

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.54, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• me: why is it upset? shouldn't it be downset? gideon: i will file a lawsuit against the dictionaries first thing tomorrow morning. we're going to tear merriam a new asshole and throw webster inside of it.

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  Morning, Upset, Tears

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.165, Penguin

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• seven wonders of the world and I have to ask for an eighth fill a bottle with some prayers and spend them on hope create an easy route just so I can complicate send my heart down that slippery slope

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  Prayer, Heart, Bottles

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.36, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• What a strange phrase — –not seeing other people. As if it’s been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it.

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  Lying, People, Phrases

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.126, Macmillan

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• stanchion, n. I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one either. Why does it feel like it's always one or the other? When we embrace, one of us is always holding the other a little tighter.

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  Strong, Doe, Want

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.172, Macmillan

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• I had forgotten this about love: how the simple things- the turn away, the turn towards- could be so complicated, and how the complicated things- the stolen night, the right words- could be so simple.

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  Simple, Night, Forgotten

  David Levithan (2015). “Marly's Ghost”, p.46, Egmont UK

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• Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once.

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  Two, Giving, Trying

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.192, Macmillan

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