David Levithan Quotes

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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.

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What I learned The well-documented difference Between alone and lonely The comfort of knowing

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

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What a strange phrase — –not seeing other people. As if it's been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it.

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I see Nick's number. I debate whether to assign a name to his number. If I commit to that, then I will truly be heartbroken if he never calls me again; my heart will knot each and every time I use this phone and see his name in there. I would probably end up having to trash the phone entirely.

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This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attachment to — I don't give them any benefit of the doubt. And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.

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Are you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire?

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We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it's gone, it's gone. We should have said we'd keep in words, because they are all we can string between us—words on a telephone line, words appearing on a screen.

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But you have to figure that if it's too hard to hang on, then maybe you should let go.

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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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People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them. Which is, I suppose, as it should be.

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It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason. And maybe I've gotten it backward, maybe it's just because I need a reason that I find myself falling in love with her. But I don't think that's it. I think I would have continued along, oblivious, if I hadn't happened to meet her.

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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.

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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.

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Sometimes desire is air, sometimes desire is liquid. And every now and then, when everything else is air and liquid, desire solidifies, and the body is the magnet that draws its weight.

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I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.

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Happiness is so rarely a part of my vocabulary, because for me it's so fleeting

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Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?

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We found out a long time ago that we weren't meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of me still fell in hope with him.

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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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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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It's almost heartening to think that the attachment you have can define your perception as much as any other influence.

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I have never had anybody talk to me like this. this is not a flirty sixth-grade phone call or bantering with friends or words passed in a note. i feel that if my soul could talk it would talk like this.

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I guess I don't believe these things can ever be easy, although I also don't see why they have to be hard.

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I have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side.

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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.

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"I want you to spend the night," you said. And it was definitely your phrasing that ensured it. If you had said, "Let's have sex," or "Let's go to my place," or even "I really want you," I'm not sure we would have gone quite as far as we did. But I loved the notion that the night was mine to spend, and I immediately decided to spend it with you.

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The boy I just kissed is talking to my father. The boy I want to kiss again is waiting for my mother to serve pancakes. I must fight the urge to freak.

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

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