Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I am proud that I defy your categories. I am proud that I don't fit easily into any box. I am proud of all the things I am and all the things i can be. Question yourself every time you think you only see one thing in me.
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
Question
Thing
Every
Defy
Things
Categories
Time
Boxes
Think
Easily
Thinking
Fit
Proud
More quotes by 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
Life goes on is a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on.
David Levithan
This is the trap of having something to live for: Everything else seems lifeless.
David Levithan
This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.
David Levithan
People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don't acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to the skin. These are memories that will remain, memories of the time when there was still time left.
David Levithan
Eventually she fell asleep, but I kept the phone against my ear, lulled by her breathing, and her breathing again in the background. And yes, it felt like home. Like everything belonged exactly where it was.
David Levithan
I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean them as much as the other ones.
David Levithan
seven wonders of the world and I have to ask for an eighth fill a bottle with some prayers and spend them on hope create an easy route just so I can complicate send my heart down that slippery slope
David Levithan
If you want to be loved, be a lovable. It's a good place to start.
David Levithan
Tell me a way you think this can work. We'll find a way, I tell her. That's not an answer. It's a hope. Hope's gotten us this far. Not answers.
David Levithan
Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.
David Levithan
He doesn’t just look upset—he looks newly blind. There is such loss in his eyes, and it permeates every other part of his body.
David Levithan
If other people see you differently, you’ll end up seeing them differently, too.
David Levithan
me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth.
David Levithan
So what do you have to confess now? I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that is the truth. I'm confessing that I don't know if I'm ready for this. What is 'this'? Being open. Being hurt. Liking. Not being liked. Seeing the flicker on. Seeing the flicker off. Leaping. Falling. Crashing.
David Levithan
There is the sudden. There is the eventual. And in between, there is the living.
David Levithan
My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.
David Levithan
Jesus died for our sins, Noah says solemnly. What?!? I reply, choking back my thoughts. I was just seeing if you were listening.
David Levithan
It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together.
David Levithan
If smart people are parodying it, that's a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it.
David Levithan