110+ David Levithan Quotes (Creative, Heartfelt And Innovative)

David Levithan is an American author of young adult fiction. He is best known for his 2003 novel Boy Meets Boy, and his collaborations with John Green, such as Will Grayson, Will Grayson. He has also written several solo novels, including Every Day and Two Boys Kissing.

Top 10 David Levithan Quotes

1. Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.
2. Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.
3. The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.
4. 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.
5. The words that matter always stay.
6. It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.
7. motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.
8. Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.
9. We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.
10. why won't they leave me alone? don't they realize I have a tinder heart and a paper body and that any spark will turn me straight to ash?

David Levithan Short Quotes

• ...because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.
• I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.
• Family, like arsenic, works best in small doses...unless you prefer to die.
• Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.
• Every you, every me. Fractals. Fractures.
• The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.
• Beauty comes naturally, but it's hard to be stunning by accident.
• it's gonna hurt because it matters.
• Maybe, it's not the distance that's the problem, but how you handle it.
• I don’t like it when you use my shampoo, because then your hair smells like me, not you.

David Levithan Famous Quotes And Sayings

If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough. — David Levithan

You existed. You existed now as a fractal. Definition: A fractal is generally a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be broken into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole. Maybe I was a fractal. Maybe the photographer was a fractal. Maybe we were all fractals. — David Levithan

It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date. It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit. It just has to be. — David Levithan

I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen. — David Levithan

If you stare at the center of the universe, there is coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other. — David Levithan

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough. — David Levithan

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. — David Levithan

this is why we call people exes, I guess - because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it's too easy to see an X as a cross-out. it's not, because there's no way to cross out something like that. the X is a diagram of two paths. — David Levithan

What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met. — David Levithan

Once the storm comes out, the landscape changes. What you had before is altered in some way. And you have a choice: build something new and better from what is left or abandon it. — David Levithan

detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it. — David Levithan

Every relationship has a hard part at the beginning. This is our hard part. It's not like a puzzle piece where there's an instant fit. With relationships, you have to shape the pieces on each end before they go perfectly together. — David Levithan

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. — David Levithan

If I'm not telling you something, it's for a reason. Just because you trust me, it doesn't mean I have to automatically trust you. Trust doesn't work like that. — David Levithan

Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends. — David Levithan

you ask me what I'm looking for, and I outline you. you don't recognize the shape, offer other names. you say my time will come, and I hope. — David Levithan

Even if you were green and had a beard and a male appendage between your legs. Even if your eyebrows were orange and you had a mole covering your entire cheek and a nose that poked me in the eye every time I kissed you. Even if you weighed seven hundred pounds and had hair the size of a Doberman under your arms. Even then, I would love you. — David Levithan

Laughter rarely lasts longer than a few seconds, it's true. But how enjoyable those few seconds are. — David Levithan

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along. — David Levithan

I'll see you later, he says, and as he does, he runs his finger briefly over my wrist. It passes over me like air, and makes me shiver like a kiss. — David Levithan

And as we drift into sleep, I feel something I’ve never felt before. A closeness that isn’t merely physical. A connection that defies the fact that we’ve only just met. A sensation that can only come from the most euphoric of feelings: belonging. — David Levithan

The key to a successful relationship isn’t just in the words, it’s in the choice of punctuation. When you’re in love with someone, a well-placed question mark can be the difference between bliss and disaster, and a deeply respected period or a cleverly inserted ellipsis can prevent all kinds of exclamations. — David Levithan

This is the thing they don't tell you about being a third wheel - it's not like you're the wheel that's added on. You were one of the original two wheels, but suddenly you're not so important anymore. The relationship drives fine without you. — David Levithan

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

I love you,” she says. “I love you,” I say. And then we hang up, because nothing else needs to be said after that. I want to give Zara her life back. Even if I feel I deserve something like this, I don’t deserve it at her expense. — David Levithan

You think you know your possibilities. Then other people come into your life and suddenly there are so many more. — David Levithan

The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y — David Levithan

Self-esteem can be so exhausting. I want to cut my hair, change my clothes, erase the pimple from the near-tip of my nose, and strengthen my upper-arm definition, all in the next hour. — David Levithan

I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain. — David Levithan

When Dawn looked at Vic, she saw Vic exactly as he wanted to be seen. Whereas Vic's parents couldn't help seeing who he used to be, and so many friends and strangers couldn't help seeing who he didn't want to be anymore, Dawn only saw him. Call it a blur if you want, but Dawn didn't see a blur. She saw a very distinct, very clear person. — David Levithan

If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which decisions you're actually going to make, and then you have to let the rest of them go. — David Levithan

tiny: did someone die? me: yeah, i did. he smiles again at that. tiny: well, then... welcome to the afterlife. — David Levithan

The more kindness and justice are challenged, the more we must embrace them. Only when you are challenged - and only when you challenge yourself - do you discover what truly matters. — David Levithan

Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else? — David Levithan

We always loved to say 'If I'd had a Monday-morning class, I never would have met you'. Or 'If you'd been reading something else, none of this would have happened'. We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky. — David Levithan

Bad Girl!" She chided. "I'm pretty sure Boris is a boy," I said. "Oh, I know," Mrs. Basil E. assured me. "I just like to keep him confused," Then she and Boris headed off with my future. — David Levithan

iv. who was it who invented size zero? who was it who promised that if you got to a certain point you would no longer be? — David Levithan

tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. i live in a big goddamned weltzschermz ocean, you know? and so do you. — David Levithan

She transforms once again into someone carefree, and I transform into someone whose only care is her. — David Levithan

Belonging. Togetherness. These words are as complicated and confusing as the word love. It’s probably all the same thing. Or it would be if we let it be. I can only guess from observation. — David Levithan

It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored. — David Levithan

when things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. it's because a little piece gets lost -- the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. the whole shape has changed. — David Levithan

Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility. — David Levithan

I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable. I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler. — David Levithan

I have no idea how he knows when I need him. We can go weeks without speaking, and then, when my blue moods threaten to turn black, he will show up and tell me my moods are azure indigo cerulean cobalt periwinkle and suddenly the blue will not seem so dark, more like the color of a noon-bright sky. He brings the sun. — David Levithan

Part of love is letting a person be who they want to be — David Levithan

I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it. — David Levithan

But I think we were walking around like we were invincible. And maybe that's a bad way to live your life. Because you're not invincible. Nobody is. And maybe now that we've learned that, we'll be better. — David Levithan

for the first time in my life i realize why hangers are called hangers, because after fifteen minutes of trying things on and throwing them aside, all i want to do is hook one to the top of my closet door, lean my neck into the loop, and let my weight fall. — David Levithan

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving — David Levithan

The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope. Every time I see these feelings in someone else's face, it weighs me down. — David Levithan

Magic naturally fades over distance. But proximity - well, when it works, proximity amplifies magic. — David Levithan

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. — David Levithan

She is my first and only love. Most people know that their first love will not be their only love. But for me, she is both. — David Levithan

There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one. — David Levithan

You like him because he's a lost boy. Believe me, I've seen it happen before. But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost themselves. Without fail. — David Levithan

In small letters, someone has written NEVER FORGET on one of the slats. I know it's supposed to be a pledge, but it feels like a curse. Don't we have to forget some of it? Don't we have to forget this feeling? If we don't, how will we live? — David Levithan

lying awake beside you, these thoughts run through my head. — David Levithan

Sharing truth is not the kind of gift that comes in wrapping paper - ripped open once and, there, you're done. No, this is a gift that must be unfolded. — David Levithan

This, I think, is how people survive: Even when horrible things have been done to us, we can still find gratitude in one another. — David Levithan

And who am I to blow against the wind? — David Levithan

My mother said I should have a 'change of scenery.' The word scenery made be think of a play. And as we were driving around, it made sense that way. Because no matter how much the scenery changed, we were still on the same stage. — David Levithan

I can flirt with the best of them, but only when it doesn't matter. — David Levithan

Two infinities: the one that stretches to the beginning but never touches-when you halve and halve and halve, infinitely-and then the one that spreads out into the endless, endless future, the endless, endless, distance.The set of infinities that is itself infinite. — David Levithan

I'm always standing on the edge of something bad. — David Levithan

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

breathtaking, adj. Those moments when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word. — David Levithan

He is much stronger than I think I am. He is mischievous, outgoing, ready to soar through the clouds, while I often feel like the cloud itself. — David Levithan

I felt like I was missing something. Missing you more. Missing whatever was going to happen next. — David Levithan

love is tied to truth. I think of them as unhappily conjoined twins. — David Levithan

simon: that's disgusting! me: what's disgusting? simon: you know. you put your thing in the place where he, um, defecates. — David Levithan

When I say, "Be my lover", I don't mean, "Let's have an affair." I don't mean "Sleep with me." I don't mean, "Be my secret." I want us to go back down to that root. I want you to be the one who loves me. I want to be the one who loves you. — David Levithan

A guy can do far far worse than surrounding himself with people who restore his faith in humanity. — David Levithan

I was sixteen and equipped with the appropriate genitalia, so I cleared that hurdle nicely. — David Levithan

There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about hearing the truth said. There is something so intimate about sharing the truth, even if you are not entirely sure what it means. — David Levithan

You leave the phone on beside you as you fall asleep. I sit in my bed and listen to your breathing, until I know you are safe, until I know you no longer need me for the night. — David Levithan

Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given. — David Levithan

I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin. — David Levithan

Is that all we need? Can the way we say each other's names encompass all our history, all our love, all our fear, all our fights, all our reunions, all of what we know about each other, all of what we don't know? — David Levithan

Dash is for sure straight!" Boomer announced. "He has a super-pretty ex-girlfriend named Sofia, who I think he still has a thing for, and also, in seventh grade, there was a game of spin the bottle and it was my turn and I spun and it landed at Dash, but he wouldn't let me kiss him. — David Levithan

I know the odds are all against me and I know you might not feel this way too but I know I would rather die trying to know if I could mean something to you — David Levithan

It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry, but this role isn't right for me'. And you have to start writing your own life and doing your own thing. — David Levithan

Why do we feel the need to disconnect in order to connect? — David Levithan

Deep breaths. I am taking deep breaths. Composure. Which, for me, means composing... Maybe this is my way of creating the illusion of control over something I have no control over. Like, if it's just a story I'm telling or a song I'm singing, then I'll be okay because I'm the guy who's providing the words. — David Levithan

Life goes on is a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on. — David Levithan

I'm not good at relationships I always manage to find the flaws sometimes in others but mostly my own. I foretell the ending then go and create the cause save myself and end up alone — David Levithan

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 — David Levithan

I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It's an infinite playlist. — David Levithan

How amazing it is that friendships can become so full that you can't imagine what your life was like before them. — David Levithan

My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away. — David Levithan

Life Lessons by David Levithan

1. David Levithan emphasizes the importance of understanding and accepting people for who they are, regardless of their differences.
2. His work encourages readers to think outside the box and to be open to new experiences and perspectives.
3. He also shows the power of love and friendship to overcome any obstacle, no matter how daunting.