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David Levithan QUOTES

1 " This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be. "

― David Levithan , Every Day (Every Day, #1)

2 " I want love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own.
It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf. "

― David Levithan , Every Day (Every Day, #1)

3 " It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer. "

― David Levithan , The Lover's Dictionary

4 " 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

5 " 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 , Every Day (Every Day, #1)

6 " 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 , The Lover's Dictionary

7 " There has to be a moment at the beginning where you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself.
If the moment doesn’t pass, that’s it—you’re done.
And if the moment does pass, it never goes that far. It stands in the distance, ready for whenever you want it back. Sometimes it’s even there when you thought you were searching for something else, like an escape route, or your lovers’ face. "

― David Levithan , The Lover's Dictionary

8 " What is it about the moment you fall in love? How can such a small measure of time contain such enormity? I suddenly realize why people believe in déjà vu, why people believe they've lived past lives, because there is no way the years I've spent on this earth could possibly encapsulate what I'm feeling. The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations—all of them rearranging themselves so that this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. In you 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 now just arriving at the place you were always meant to be. "

― David Levithan , Every Day (Every Day, #1)

9 " You know what’s a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in order to get to beauty, and even then, when you get there, you still have to wake her up.
— Tiny Cooper "

― David Levithan , Will Grayson, Will Grayson

10 " he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with. "

― David Levithan , Will Grayson, Will Grayson

David Levithan QUOTES

11 " Love 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 day.

It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirt.

It just has to be. "

― David Levithan , How They Met, and Other Stories

12 " You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you. "

― David Levithan , Every You, Every Me

13 " Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah "

― David Levithan , Marly's Ghost

14 " 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. "

― David Levithan , Boy Meets Boy

15 " 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 , Six Earlier Days (Every Day, #0.5)

16 " Once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you're breathing it in. Even after smoke becomes air, there is the memory of smoke. I am seeing as if by the light of a match, a glimpse of my life and having it feel right. "

― David Levithan , The Realm of Possibility

17 " rolf! what? are you really rolling on the floor laughing? well, please stay down there for a sec while I KICK YOUR ASS. "

― David Levithan , Will Grayson, Will Grayson

18 " Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore. "

― David Levithan , Boy Meets Boy

19 " I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten.

It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF. "

― David Levithan , Boy Meets Boy

20 " now, if there's anything stupider than buddy lists, its lol. if anyone ever uses lol with me, i rip my computer right out of the wall and smash it over the nearest head. i mean, it's not like anyone is laughing out loud about the things they lol. i think it should be spelled loll. like what a lobotomized person's tongue does. loll. loll. i can't think anymore. loll. loll! or ttyl. bitch, you're not actually talking. that would require actual vocal contact or <3. you honestly think that looks like a heart? if you do, that's only because you'v never seen scrotum. (rofl! what? are you really rolling on the floor laughing? well, please stay down there a sec while i KICK YOUR ASS) "

― David Levithan , Will Grayson, Will Grayson