Quote

Things rarely get fixed the way they need to be.

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
Way
Things
Rarely
Fixed
Need
Needs

More quotes by David Levithan

Image
People are always separable.
David Levithan
Image
I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real.
David Levithan
Image
The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender. As I step out of bed and slip on an oversize shirt, everything around me feels like it's the temperature of happiness.
David Levithan
Image
I still don’t know if this is a good quality or a bad one, to be able to be in the moment and then step out of it.
David Levithan
Image
Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.
David Levithan
Image
I want to take back the secrets I told you so I can decide now whether to tell them to you again. I want to take back the piece of me that lies in you, to see if I truly miss it. I want to take back at least half the “I love you”s, because it feels safer that way.
David Levithan
Image
Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.
David Levithan
Image
The words that matter always stay.
David Levithan
Image
I want you to spend the night, you said. And it was definitely your phrasing that ensured it. If you had said, Let's have sex, or Let's go to my place, or even I really want you, I'm not sure we would have gone quite as far as we did. But I loved the notion that the night was mine to spend, and I immediately decided to spend it wit
David Levithan
Image
We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home
David Levithan
Image
Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold you together
David Levithan
Image
But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily that I felt we'd all been duped by Plato and the idea of a soul mate. Just in case it turned out that she was mine.
David Levithan
Image
I've worn black today, because I've heard so often that it's supposed to be slimming. But instead I am this sphere of darkness submarining through the halls.
David Levithan
Image
I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.
David Levithan
Image
We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.
David Levithan
Image
I text tiny a minute later. MADE NEW GAY FRIEND. And he texts back PROGRESS!!!
David Levithan
Image
I find my greatest strength in wanting to be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave. I don't know if I've ever realized it before,[...] I think we both realize it now. If there's no feeling of fear, then there's no need for courage.
David Levithan
Image
It was rather awkward, insofar as we were both teetering between the possibility of something and the possibility of nothing.
David Levithan
Image
That's what it felt like - that if I let a little of the hurt out, it would keep pouring out until I was a deflated balloon of a person, with a big monster of hurt in front of me.
David Levithan
Image
lying awake beside you, these thoughts run through my head.
David Levithan