David Levithan Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.”
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“You can't actually have a romance between friends. That sort of defeats the definition of the word "romance." The word you're looking for is "love." It's a love between friends, just as there's also love between lovers, or possible lovers, or even ex-lovers. Same holds true for "bromance" - it's just a clever word used to avoid the word love, for straight boys who don't want that old-fashioned taint of gayness. Dudes, you love each other. Deal with it.”
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“The words that matter always stay.”
-- David LevithanSource : David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.143, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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“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 LevithanSource : Robin Jones Gunn (2009). “Sierra Jensen Collection”, p.329, Multnomah
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“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.”
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“What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.”
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“You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.”
-- David LevithanSource : David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.138, Egmont UK
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“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 LevithanSource : David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.38, Egmont UK
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“It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”
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“Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.”
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“And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.”
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“The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations - all of them rearranging themselves so this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. In your heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.”
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“There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself.”
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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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“I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. I will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expectation. I can view everyone as pieces of a whole, and focus on the whole, not the pieces. I have learned to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present because that is where I am destined to live.”
-- David LevithanSource : David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.10, Egmont UK
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“Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.”
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“There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one.”
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“Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.”
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“But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.”
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“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 LevithanSource : David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.158, Egmont UK
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“Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.”
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“It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it's lonely, because you feel you can't talk about it. You feel it's something between you and the body. You feel it's a battle you will never win . . . and yet you fight it day after day, and it wears you down. Even if you try to ignore it, the energy it takes to ignore it will exhaust you.”
-- David LevithanSource : David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.154, Egmont UK
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“Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold you together”
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“You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree you could be the sun that never leaves the sky this might be the happy ending without the ending this might be a reason to try”
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“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.”
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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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“Here’s what I know about the realm of possibility— it is always expanding, it is never what you think it is. Everything around us was once deemed impossible. From the airplane overhead to the phones in our pockets to the choir girl putting her arm around the metalhead. As hard as it is for us to see sometimes, we all exist within the realm of possibility. Most of the limits are of our own world’s devising. And yet, every day we each do so many things that were once impossible to us.”
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“You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here's a hint - ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you, it wasn't just the women. It's the great male fantasy - all it takes is one dance to know that she's the one. All it takes is the sound of her song from the tower, or a look at her sleeping face. And right away you know - this is the girl in your head, sleeping or dancing or singing in front of you. Yes, girls want their princes, but boys want their princesses just as much. And they don't want a very long courtships. They want to know immediately.”
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“But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion.”
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“Falling in love with someone doesn’t mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.”
-- David LevithanSource : David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.62, Egmont UK
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