Quote

I'm always standing on the edge of something bad.

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
Edge
Edges
Standing
Something
Always

More quotes by David Levithan

Image
This is what a memorial is: standing still, staring at something that isn’t ther
David Levithan
Image
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
Image
Love is the higher law.
David Levithan
Image
Holden Caulfield is the embodiment of what we mean by the phrase “young adult” – too young to be a grown-up, but too wise to the world to be completely innocent. He’s caught in the in-between, and that in-between is what all young adult authors write about.
David Levithan
Image
I have no idea how he knows when I need him. We can go weeks without speaking, and then, when my blue moods threaten to turn black, he will show up and tell me my moods are azure indigo cerulean cobalt periwinkle and suddenly the blue will not seem so dark, more like the color of a noon-bright sky. He brings the sun.
David Levithan
Image
...he hopes that maybe it'll make people a little less scared of two boys kissing than they were before, and a little more welcoming to the idea that all people are, in fact, born equal, no matter who they kiss or screw, no matter what dreams they have or love they give.
David Levithan
Image
As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we’re really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.
David Levithan
Image
Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.
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
There are few things harder than being born into the wrong body.
David Levithan
Image
placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.
David Levithan
Image
I see Nick's number. I debate whether to assign a name to his number. If I commit to that, then I will truly be heartbroken if he never calls me again my heart will knot each and every time I use this phone and see his name in there. I would probably end up having to trash the phone entirely.
David Levithan
Image
Feeling someone else's anger is bad being left alone is worse.
David Levithan
Image
If you want to be loved, be a lovable. It's a good place to start.
David Levithan
Image
I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.
David Levithan
Image
Life goes on is a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on.
David Levithan
Image
But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion.
David Levithan
Image
I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else.
David Levithan
Image
We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust. That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.
David Levithan
Image
When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.
David Levithan