David Levithan Quotes - Page 19

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• So what else can I tell you?" I asked. "I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me.

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  Honesty, Mean, Lilies

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.140, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more.

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  Relationship, Missing, Said

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.136, Macmillan

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• I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't realize you're on the floor.

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  Sex, Realizing, I Realized

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.128, Macmillan

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• I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.

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  Mind, Want, Stories

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• Love is the higher law.

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  Love Is, Law, Higher Law

  David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.249, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant.

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  Memories, Sometimes, Tricks

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.37, Egmont UK

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• One of my best friends is named David Leventhal, and it has always been a constant source of amusement to see how the similarity and differences play out in our lives.

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  Play, Differences, My Best Friend

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• What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.

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  Girl, Teenage, White

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• Such a strange thing, to hold a six-year-old's hand. Especially a six-year-old you've only just met. A toddler will grab hold of your finger, and someone your own age will clasp on to your whole hand, but with six-year-olds it's something in between, this acknowledgment that they can't be the one to take hold, so you have to do all the holding, folding your hand around theirs, feeling so much bigger and responsible.

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  Hands, Years, Feelings

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• There is no such thing as equality for some. Equality must be for all. That is what freedom is. That is what liberty is. No human being is born more or less important than any other. How can we allow ourselves to forget that? What simpler truth is there?

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  Book, Important, Liberty

  David Levithan (2008). “Wide Awake”, p.14, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• There is no reason that we should ever be ashamed of our bodies or ashamed of our love.

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  Body, Our Love, Reason

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.83, Egmont UK

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• There is the sudden. There is the eventual. And in between, there is the living.

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  Life

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.114, Egmont UK

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• ...he hopes that maybe it'll make people a little less scared of two boys kissing than they were before, and a little more welcoming to the idea that all people are, in fact, born equal, no matter who they kiss or screw, no matter what dreams they have or love they give.

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  Dream, Kissing, Boys

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.112, Egmont UK

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• We remember what it was like to meet someone new. We remember what it was like to grant someone possibility. You look out from your own world and then you step into his, not really knowing what you’ll find there, but hoping it will be something good. Both Ryan and Avery are doing this. You step into his world and you don’t even realize your loneliness is missing. You’ve left it behind, and you don’t notice because you have no desire to turn back.

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  Loneliness, Knowing, Missing

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.13, Egmont UK

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• Beauty comes naturally, but it's hard to be stunning by accident.

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  Stunning, Accidents, Hard

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.93, Egmont UK

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• We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust. That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.

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  Dust, Ends, Asks

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.114, Egmont UK

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• Because what's the point of something virtual if it doesn't end up being real?

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  Real, Being Real, Ends

  David Levithan (2015). “Another Day”, p.92, Egmont UK

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• We wish we could have been there for you. We didn't have many role models of our own--we latched on to the foolish love of Oscar Wilde and the well-versed longing of Walt Whitman because nobody else was there to show us an untortured path. We were going to be your role models. We were going to give you art and music and confidence and shelter and a much better world. Those who survived lived to do this. But we haven't been there for you. We've been here. Watching as you become the role models.

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  Art, Giving, Role Models

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.113, Egmont UK

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• ... I love books about freaks," because I am one. You might be, too. Let's be freaks together?

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  Book, Together, Might

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.234, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• no matter how happy we are, no matter how much we want our night to stretch out infinitely, sleep is inevitable.

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  Sleep, Night, Want

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.14, Egmont UK

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• You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together. And then everything falls apart anyway.

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  Fall, Effort, Trying

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.20, Egmont UK

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• You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all about you again. But it's not all about you. Love doesn't work that way.

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  Giving Up, Way, Slipping

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• With some people ,the minute you start talking, it feels like you've known them for years. It only means that you were supposed to meet sooner. You're feeling all the time you should have known each other, but didn't. That time still counts. You can definitely feel it.

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  Mean, Talking, Should Have

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• If you let the world in, you open yourself up to the world. Even if the world doesn't know that you're there.

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  World, Knows, Ifs

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.74, Egmont UK

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• Its almost scary how amateur I am when it comes to musicals - Im a musical goer, but I am not as obsessed with musicals as perhaps some of my theatrical friends are.

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  Scary, Musical, Obsessed

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