Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
David Levithan
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
Author
Novelist
Writer
Short Hills
New Jersey
Someone
Reflection
Self
Friendship
Need
Close
Enough
Trust
Needs
Worst
Always
Wrong
Selves
Tell
Reflecting
Else
Vulnerable
More quotes by David Levithan
Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.
David Levithan
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
David Levithan
Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.
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
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
I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.
David Levithan
Maybe there is hope in the fragments, that what is lost can always be filled in by someone who knows.
David Levithan
But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.
David Levithan
We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home
David Levithan
They never played games with each other, they never had tow worry where they stood, because if either of them had a moment of wavering, the other would say I love you and would mean it and all doubts were forgiven because in this one case it was found that love conquers all.
David Levithan
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.
David Levithan
Let me hold on to this the way it was, before I knew anything else.
David Levithan
There are few things harder than being born into the wrong body.
David Levithan
next to it was a dvd called 'as i get laid dying,' which had a hospital scene on the front. it was like grey's anatomy, only with less grey and more anatomy.
David Levithan
I'm a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell.
David Levithan
Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse.
David Levithan
When is a night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply realize that you have to? When the club closes or when you everyone leaves? It's over when you decide it's over, she says. When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky.
David Levithan
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.
David Levithan
Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.
David Levithan
Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant.
David Levithan