Quote

Maybe there's a way to keep us in this moment. Not the sad part. But the coming together part.

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
Coming
Maybe
Moment
Keep
Moments
Part
Together
Way

More quotes by David Levithan

Image
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
Image
You are happy even if you are afraid to admit it.
David Levithan
Image
Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah
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
And I'm moved, it's so beautiful. Not what I wrote, but to have it given back like this. To have her remember the words and the tune. To hear it in her voice.
David Levithan
Image
Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant.
David Levithan
Image
Teens wanted things that were real, that they connected with, it doesn't have to reflect reality directly. They love 'The Hunger Games' not because it's real in that it happens, but the emotions there are real, and it's very relatable.
David Levithan
Image
It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding.
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
How amazing it is that friendships can become so full that you can't imagine what your life was like before them.
David Levithan
Image
This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.
David Levithan
Image
I want my own books to have their own shelves, you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together.
David Levithan
Image
Because it is senior year I have begun to see things as potential absences. The things I love will become the things I'll miss.
David Levithan
Image
Our lives change. Our feelings for each other change. Our bearings change. The song changes. The air changes. The temperature of the shower changes. Accept this. We must accept this.
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
If you start the day reading the obituaries, you live your day a little differently.
David Levithan
Image
I had no idea what I wanted, only that I wanted something, which is the worst kind of wanting.
David Levithan
Image
Little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance.
David Levithan
Image
I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly
David Levithan
Image
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