David Levithan Quotes - Page 16

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• The way you're singing in your sleep The way you look before you leap The strange illusions that you keep You don't know But I'm noticing The way your touch turns into arcs The way you slide into the dark The beating of my open heart You don't know But I'm noticing

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  Heart, Sleep, Dark

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick & Norah - Soundtrack einer Nacht”, p.102, cbj Verlag

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• We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home

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  Twilight, Home, Way

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• Our moments are music, and sometimes – just sometimes – we can catch them and put them into some lasting form. If we didn’t have music, I don’t think we could ever be truly happy, and if we didn’t have special moments, we would never find music.

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  Thinking, Special, Sometimes

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• Part of love is letting a person be who they want to be

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  Love Is, Want, Persons

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.152, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• this might be the happy ending without the ending

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  Might, Happy Endings

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.122, Egmont UK

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• Things are going so well. We’re volleying words back and forth. Everything she says, I have something I can say back. We’re sparking, and part of me just wants to sit back and watch. We’re clicking. Not because a part of me is fitting into a part of her. But because our words are clicking into each other to form sentences and our sentences are clicking into each other to form dialogue and our dialogue is clicking together to form this scene from this ongoing movie that’s as comfortable as it is unrehearsed.

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  Together, Watches, Our Words

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.47, Egmont UK

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• No, really,' I said. 'I think she's great. And I honestly like her about twenty more times now than I did when we were dating. But love needs to have a future. And Sofia and I don't have a future. We've just had a good time sharing the present, that's all.

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  Thinking, Dating, Twenties

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• And I find myself saying, “It wasn’t really about her.” And finding it’s true. What do you mean?” Norah asks. It was about the feeling, you know? She caused it in me, but it wasn’t about her. It was about my reaction, what I wanted to feel and then convinced myself that I felt, because I wanted it that bad. That illusion. It was love because I created it as love.

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  Mean, Feelings, Illusion

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.83, Egmont UK

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• His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.

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  Wall, Book, Sea

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.46, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I close my eyes. And i scream. If my whole world is crashing down around me, then I am going to make the sound of the crashing. I want to scream until all my bones break.

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  Eye, Sound, World

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.78, Penguin

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• I would always wait to take you home.

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  Home, Waiting

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• You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.

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  People, You Don't Know Me, I Can

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• After tiny has tried ballerina pose, swing-batter-batter pose, pump-up-the-jam pose, and top-of-the-mountain-sound-of-music pose in the reflection of the bean, he walks us to a bench overlooking lake shore drive.

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  Reflection, Lakes, Swings

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.93, Penguin

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• When it all come down to it, the thing that matters most in a relationship is principles [...] We have the same idea what’s right and what’s wrong, and that’s got us through any number of things. If you can have that with someone, then you’re most of the way toward love. Not just lover-love. Any kind of love.

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  Ideas, Numbers, Principles

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• We walk into a bar, and you're aware of all the eyes on you. We walk into a bar, and I'm aware of all the eyes on you, too. For you, this translate into confidence. But me? All I can feel is doubt.

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  Eye, Doubt, Bars

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• We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time.

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  Moving, Thinking, Giving

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• A year. A thousand kisses. And now a thousand one, a thousand two. There are so many other place we could have ended up, but I have to believe none of them would have felt this right. "All I want is you" is not entirely true. I want so much more, and with you I think I can get it.

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  Believe, Kissing, Thinking

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.208, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We are so used to releasing words, we don't know what to do with them if they stay. No matter how many times we let them go, they come back. The words that matter always stay.

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  Matter, Possibility, Used

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.143, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I can't pretend to know what love is. It just is.

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  Love Is, Knows, I Can

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.7, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• In the next election, I'm voting for your mom to be the next God.

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  Mom, Voting, Next

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.158, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• What's the big deal with France? How come everyone wants to go there? Let me tell you about France. Their music sucks. Their movies suck. Their berets suck. Their croissants are pretty good, but the place overall still sucks.My family went there once on the way to visit Dad's homeland family. EuroDisney. Need I say more?

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  Dad, Needs, Want

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2007). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.117, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?

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  Love, Wish, Essentials

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.9, Egmont UK

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• Neophyte, n. There are millions upon millions of people who have been through this before-- why is it that no one can give my good advice?

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  People, Giving, Advice

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• Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.

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  Self, Bookstores, Helping

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.3, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You wanna-I dunno-get coffee or something sometime?" Justin smiled "Not coffee. But yes." "Not Coffee it is, then." "Yes, Not Coffee.

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  Coffee, Justin

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.20, Egmont UK

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