David Levithan Quotes - Page 4

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• People often say that when couples are married for a long time, they start to look alike. I don't believe that. But I do believe their sentences start to look alike.

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  Couple, Believe, Long

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.19, Macmillan

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• When it comes to true dance, it's not about how you look, it's all about the joy you feel.

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  Dance, Joy, Looks

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• The terrorists-those nineteen people, with hundreds or maybe thousands behind them-did the worst thing you can possibly imagine. But tens of millions people did the right thing...On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring.

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  Caring, People, Bravery

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• For the Jesus Revolutionaries, the answer was clear: Jesus would not be out waging "preventative" wars. Jesus would not be withholding medicine from people who could not afford it. Jesus would not cast stones at people of races, sexual orientatons, or genders other than His own. Jesus would not condone the failing, viperous, scandalplagued hierarchy of some churches. Jesus would welcome everyone to his his table. He would love them, and he would find peace.

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  Jesus, War, Race

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• Life goes on is a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on.

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  Goes On, Life Is, Redundancy

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.102, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.

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  Romantic, Falling In Love, Love You

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.20, Egmont UK

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• I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own.

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  Taken, Order, People

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.92, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.

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  Moments, Previous Life, Contrast

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.69, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Let’s always love each other, and never be in love with each other.

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  Love Each Other

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• Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.

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  Getting What You Want, Figures, Difficult

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.177, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I never know what you really want, if I can give it to you, or if I’m already too late.

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  Giving, Too Late, Want

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.64, Macmillan

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• Most people, I've noticed, are instinctively harsh to strangers. They expect every approach to be an attack, every question to be an interruption.

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  People, Stranger, Harsh

  David Levithan (2012). “Every Day”, p.54, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• But the thing about a cry for help is that someone else needs to be around to hear it.

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  Needs, Helping, Cry

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.80, Egmont UK

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• A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

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  Memories, Moments, Photograph

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• I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.

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  People, Going Away, Resentment

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.77, Egmont UK

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• And once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.

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  Thinking, People, Devil

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.89, Egmont UK

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• I don't even know what I'm looking for, although I hope I'll know it if I find it along the way. Sometimes I want to simplify my life into a simple bare thing. And other times I want to complicate it so thoroughly that everything I touch will become bound in some way to me. I've become quite aware of my contradictions, but there's no true resolution in that.

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  Simple, Want, Way

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• It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other.... For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.

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  Race, Focus, Inability

  David Levithan (2012). “Every Day”, p.77, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The way you argued with me, you would have thought that we were debating the existence of God or whether or not we should move in together. These kinds of fights can never be won – even if you’re the victor, you’ve hurt the other person, and there has to be some loss associated with that.

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  Hurt, Moving, Fighting

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.10, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• People are always separable.

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  People

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• Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results.

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  Practice, Piano, Making Love

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.16, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• This is my life, I think. I am an accumulation of objects.

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  Thinking, Accumulation, Objects

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.61, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• But death is not freedom. For a moment, it can look like freedom. But then it's death. Anything. Something. Nothing.

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  Looks, Moments

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• I never have people tell me their stories. I usually have to figure them out myself. Because I know that if people tell me stories, they will expect them to be remembered. And I cannot guarantee that. There is no way to know if the stories stay after I'm gone. And how devastating would it be to confide in someone and have the confidence disappear? I don't want to be responsible for that.

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  Guarantees That, People, Gone

  David Levithan (2012). “Every Day”, p.18, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.

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  Needs

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.11, Egmont UK

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