Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
having someone think of me that way was like discovering a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life.
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
Someone
Way
Think
Thinking
Discovering
Life
Window
Like
Lived
Room
Rooms
More quotes by David Levithan
motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.
David Levithan
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
Sharing truth is not the kind of gift that comes in wrapping paper - ripped open once and, there, you're done. No, this is a gift that must be unfolded.
David Levithan
yearning n. and adj. At te core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect.
David Levithan
There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one.
David Levithan
It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it's lonely, because you feel you can't talk about it. You feel it's something between you and the body. You feel it's a battle you will never win . . . and yet you fight it day after day, and it wears you down. Even if you try to ignore it, the energy it takes to ignore it will exhaust you.
David Levithan
Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.
David Levithan
I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. It can't even get itself out of the bottle.
David Levithan
If other people see you differently, you’ll end up seeing them differently, too.
David Levithan
There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings.
David Levithan
This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.
David Levithan
So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.
David Levithan
Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.
David Levithan
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
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
Maybe, it's not the distance that's the problem, but how you handle it.
David Levithan
I can't pretend to know what love is. It just is.
David Levithan
I find my greatest strengths in wanting ti be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave.
David Levithan
That lasting things do, in fact, last.
David Levithan
Our moments are music, and sometimes – just sometimes – we can catch them and put them into some lasting form. If we didn’t have music, I don’t think we could ever be truly happy, and if we didn’t have special moments, we would never find music.
David Levithan
