Quote

I know from experience that beneath every peripheral girl is a central truth. She’s hiding hers away, but at the same time she wants me to see it.

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
Girl
Experience
Away
Truth
Peripheral
Every
Beneath
Time
Hiding
Central
Wants

More quotes by David Levithan

Image
If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which decisions you're actually going to make, and then you have to let the rest of them go.
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
I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend.
David Levithan
Image
It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than in service to ourselves.
David Levithan
Image
luckily, tiny texts me every five minutes or so. i don't know how he does it without getting caught in class. maybe he hides the phone in the folds of his stomach or something.
David Levithan
Image
Maybe that's what history is, you go from one I can't believe it the next. And sometimes the I can't believe its are good, and sometimes they're bad. But the sum total of positive ones always outweighs the negative ones.
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
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
Told her she was beautiful. Didn't give up when she didn't believe me.
David Levithan
Image
What did it matter to me? Did I think that by making you rational about one thing, I could make you rational about everything? Maybe. Or maybe I just wanted to save you from your fears
David Levithan
Image
You never let things go unanswered for too long. Emails. Phone calls. Questions. As if you know the waiting is the hardest part for me.
David Levithan
Image
he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with.
David Levithan
Image
I couldn't fault her for believing, because I had to imagine i was nice to have that illusion still intact.
David Levithan
Image
Two infinities: the one that stretches to the beginning but never touches-when you halve and halve and halve, infinitely-and then the one that spreads out into the endless, endless future, the endless, endless, distance.The set of infinities that is itself infinite.
David Levithan
Image
I think of friendship in terms of love.
David Levithan
Image
There are many things that can keep you in a relationship, I say. Fear of being alone. Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life. A decision to settle for something that's okay, because you don't know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better, even if you know he won't change.
David Levithan
Image
This is what my voice sounds like I don't need to be talking to someone else To hear it
David Levithan
Image
Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.
David Levithan
Image
It's almost heartening to think that the attachment you have can define your perception as much as any other influence.
David Levithan
Image
I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It's an infinite playlist.
David Levithan