David Levithan Quotes - Page 20

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• It doesn't feel like a date. It doesn't feel like friendship. It feels like something that fell off the tightrope but hasn't yet hit the net.

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  Feels, Like Something

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.165, Egmont UK

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• I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds.

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  Color, Taste, Deeper

  David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.12, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• If you start the day reading the obituaries, you live your day a little differently.

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  Reading, Littles, Start The Day

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.123, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• If goodness can't come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable.

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  Unbearable, Goodness, Ifs

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.104, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• only adj. thats the dilemma isn't it? when you're single, there's the sadness and joy of only me. And when you're paired, there's the sadness and joy of only you.

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  Sadness, Joy, Dilemma

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.145, Macmillan

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• you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.

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  Thinking, Silence, Peaceful

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• If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore.

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  Zoom, Losing Yourself, Persons

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• I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean them as much as the other ones.

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  Love You, Mean, Half

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.159, Macmillan

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• ...and suddenly you started singing out your love for me. My name and everything, loud enough to reach the top floors of all the buildings. I should have told you to stop, but I didn’t want you to stop. I didn’t mind if your love for me woke people up. I didn’t mind if it somehow sneaked into their sleep.

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  Sleep, Should Have, Names

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.183, Macmillan

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• Do you know when you cross against traffic? You look down the street and see a car coming, but you know you can get across before it gets to you. So even though there’s a DON’T WALK sign, you cross anyway. And there’s always a split second when you turn and see that car coming, and you know that if you don’t continue moving, it will all be over. That’s how I feel a lot of the time. I know I’ll make it across. I always make it across. But the car is always there, and I always stop to watch it coming.

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  Moving, Car, Watches

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• You went and broke our lives. You are so much worse than a cheater. You killed something. And you killed it when its back was turned.

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  Cheater, Infidelity, Broke

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.129, Macmillan

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• I suspected that what happens in hotel rooms rarely lasts outside of them. I suspected that when something was a beginning and an ending at the same time, that meant it could only exist in the present.

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  Lasts, Rooms, Hotel

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.174, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I think of friendship in terms of love.

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  Thinking, Term

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.8, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions.

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  Memories, Accomplishment, Lasting Impressions

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.152, Macmillan

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• You know, I'd get a tattoo with your name on it. Only, I want you to have the freedom to change your name if you want to.

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  Tattoo, Names, Want

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.183, Macmillan

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• She asked me what was wrong, and I told her I had to end it. She was surprised, and asked my why I thought so. I told her it wasn't a thought, more a feeling, like I couldn't breathe and knew I had to get some air. It was a survival instinct, I told her. She said it was time for dinner. Then she sat me down and told me not to worry. She said moments like this were like waking up in the middle of the night: You're scared, your'e disoriented, and you're completely convinced you're right. But then you stay awake a little longer and you realize things aren't as fearful as they seem.

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  Night, Air, Realize Things

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• There are times I think of us all and I wish we were back in second grade. Not really that young. But I wish it felt like second grade. I’m not saying everyone was friends back then. But we all got along. There were groups, but they didn’t really divide. At the end of the day, your class was your class, and you felt like you were a part of it. You had your friends and you had the other kids, but you didn’t really hate anyone longer than a couple of hours. Everybody got a birthday card. In second grade, we were all in it together. Now we’re all apart.

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  Couple, Hate, Kids

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• I try to be a careful person. Most of the time my carelessness is completely unintentional.

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  Trying, Careful, Persons

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• The boy I loved didn't know I existed. Then again, he was obsessed with Camus, so he didn't know if any of us existed.

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  Boys, Obsessed, Knows

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• Breathing, n You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older, it went away. You could run for miles and it was fine. Sometimes I worry that this is happening to me in reverse. The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

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  Running, Children, Breathing

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.39, Macmillan

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• Told her she was beautiful. Didn't give up when she didn't believe me.

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  Beautiful, Giving Up, Believe

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.124, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• yearning n. and adj. At te core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect.

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  Perfect, Desire, Belief

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• As long as we can conjure, who needs anything else? As long as we can agree on the magical lie and be happy, what more is there to ask for? “I loved you from that moment on,” I say. “I loved you from that moment on,” you agree.

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  Lying, Long, Needs

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

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• Every you, every me. Fractals. Fractures.

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  Fractals, Fracture

  David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.187, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Your life is inescapable. Unless you decide to escape it.

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  Life Is

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