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David Levithan Quotes

Total quotes: 13
“I'm not good at relationships 
I always manage to find the flaws 
sometimes in others 
but mostly my own. 
I foretell the ending 
 then go and create the cause 
save myself 
and end up alone.”
— David Levithan, The Realm Of Possibility
Tagged: Relationships, Sabatoge, Self-Sabatoge, Self-Esteem
“The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.”
— David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel
Tagged: Uncertainty, Certainty, Answers
“'All I want is you' is not entirely true. 

I want so much more, and with you I think I can get it.”
— David Levithan, The Realm Of Possibility
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Healthy Love, Falling In Love
“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”
— David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Tagged: Murder, Suicide, Death
“With that right person, you can have a late-night conversation at any time of the day.”
— David Levithan, Are We There Yet
Tagged: Friendship, Conversation
“I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't realize you're on the floor.”
— David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary
Tagged: Sex, hookups, Dating
“Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.”
— David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel
Tagged: Sex, Love, Kissing
“Some people think mental illness is a matter of mood, a matter of personality. They think depression is simply a form of being sad, that OCD is a form of being uptight. They think the soul is sick, not the body. It is, they believe, something that you have some choice over.

I know how wrong this is.”
— David Levithan, Every Day
Tagged: Mental Illness, Depression, ocd
“It hurts that I can be so full of him while he’s so empty of me.”
— David Levithan, Another Day
Tagged: Sad, Heartbreak, Break Up, Emptiness
“This is why we call people exes, I guess – because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it’s too easy to see an X as a cross-out. it’s not, because there’s no way to cross out something like that. the X is a diagram of two paths.”
— John Green, David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“'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 with you.”
— David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary
Tagged: Sex, hookups
“Who came up with the term cheating, anyway? A cheater, I imagine. Someone who thought liar was too harsh. Someone who thought devastator was too emotional. The same person who thought, oops, he’d gotten caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Fuck you. This isn’t about slipping yourself an extra twenty dollars of Monopoly money. These are our lives. You went and broke our lives. You are so much worse than a cheater. You killed something. And you killed it when its back was turned.”
— David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel
Tagged: Cheating, Infidelity, Sex, Relationships
“We all want someone to build a fort with. We want somebody to swap crayons with and play hide-and-seek with and live out imaginary stories with. We start out getting that from our family. Then we get it from our friends. And then, for whatever reasons, we get it in our heads that we need to get that feeling- that intimacy- from a single someone else. We call if growing up. But really, when you take sex out of it, what we want is a companion. And we make that so damn hard to find.”
— David Levithan, Are We There Yet
Tagged: Friendship, Love, Intimacy
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