Quote

I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too.

David Levithan

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
Author
Novelist
Writer
Short Hills
New Jersey
Also
Less

More quotes by David Levithan

Image
Indelible, adj. That first night, you took your finger and pointed to the top of my head, then traced a line between my eyes, down my nose, over my lips, my chin, my neck, to the center of my chest. It was so surprising. I knew I would never mimic it. That one gesture would be yours forever.
David Levithan
Image
So what else can I tell you? I asked. I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me.
David Levithan
Image
But if I didn’t want to be alone, then why didn’t I want to be with anyone else?
David Levithan
Image
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.
David Levithan
Image
Love me less, but love me for a long time
David Levithan
Image
It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it’s lonely, because you feel you can’t talk about it.
David Levithan
Image
You have to trust the words. They do not create anything more than themselves.
David Levithan
Image
Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.
David Levithan
Image
You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.
David Levithan
Image
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
Image
I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia.
David Levithan
Image
He’ll have to prove it to you. Every day, he’ll have to prove he’s worthy of you. And if he doesn’t, that’s it. But I think he will.
David Levithan
Image
If smart people are parodying it, that's a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it.
David Levithan
Image
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
Image
me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly.” -Will Grayson (pg. 66)
David Levithan
Image
There is certainty in a ring. The non-ending, the non-beginning. The ongoing. The way it holds on to you not because it's fastened or stretched or adhered. It holds on because it fits.
David Levithan
Image
being with someone for over a year can mean that you love them … but it can also mean you’re trapped.
David Levithan
Image
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
Image
I don't get this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired.
David Levithan
Image
When he talked to you, you seemed to fit in, but when someone else was talking, or he would be distracted, you jsut looked lonely over there. At least to me. But whenever I would tell you that, you'd say I'm fine. I just slip out of it, you know? And I'd say I'll catch you, and you would say, It's not the kind of slipping you can catch.
David Levithan