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David Levithan Quotes

Total quotes: 88
“I want to believe there is a somebody out there just for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.”
— David Levithan, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
Tagged: Destiny, Love, Belief, Hope
“There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself.”
— David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary
Tagged: Relationship, affair, soulmate
“I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.”
— John Green, David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Tagged: Happiness, Hope For The Best, wish for happiness, Love & Happiness, Expressing Love
“Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it.”
— David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel
Tagged: Attachment, Relationship
“naught, n.: The underlying terror that no matter what I do, I will still fall short of the connection, touching without holding.”
— David Levithan, via twitter.com
Tagged: Almost Relationships
“Ultimately, the universe doesn’t care about us. Time doesn’t care about us. That’s why we have to care about each other.”
— David Levithan, Every Day
Tagged: Time, Universe, Love, Relationship, People, Connection
“Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.”
— David Levithan, Every Day
Tagged: Mind, Her, Words, Thoughts, impulses, Over Thinking
“There are times when I doubt everything. When I regret everything you’ve taken from me, everything I’ve given you, and the waste of all the time I’ve spent on us.”
— David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary
Tagged: Regret, Love, separation
“I no longer think she’s just being nice. She’s being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.”
— David Levithan, Every Day
Tagged: kindness, Character Observation, Personality
“When you love someone, they become your reason.”
— David Levithan, Every Day
Tagged: Love, Reason
“Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it. If I wanted to detach completely, I would move my body away. I would stop the conversation midsentence. I would leave the bed. Instead, I hover over it for a second. I glance off in another direction. But I always glance back at you.”
— David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary
Tagged: Relationship, Detachment
“It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can’t even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It’s simply a matter of is and is no longer.”
— David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary
Tagged: Love, Memories, comparisons
“What do I know about love? Not much-that’s the safe answer. Even when I think I have a grasp on it, something comes along to make me realize I don’t know anything at all. It’s just a concept to me. It’s the thing that all the songs are written about, the thing that makes smart people act stupidly.”
— David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories
Tagged: Love (The Concept), Stupid
“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
“noetic, adj.: Look it up. This is the kind of justice I wish to see.”
— David Levithan, via twitter.com
Tagged: noetic, Justice, Intellect, Intellectual
“neat, adj.: I define acceptable clutter as anything that doesn't rot.”
— David Levithan, via twitter.com
Tagged: tidiness, Clutter, neatness, Life, Messy, People, humor
“I notice you, I want to say. Even when no one else does, I do. I will.”
— David Levithan, Every Day
Tagged: David Levithan
“nonexclusivity, n.: We both feel the pull of attraction elsewhere, but can’t let it pull us too far away from each other.”
— David Levithan, via twitter.com
Tagged: Relationships, Love, Attraction, Love & Relationships, nonexclusivity
“natural, adj.: Doubt may be as inherent as the desire to breathe, but there are long stretches with you when I can forget about air.”
— David Levithan, via twitter.com
Tagged: Love, romance, Love & Contentment, Love & Happiness
“narrow, v.: The shape of one person’s body isn’t nearly expansive enough to contain the focus of all of another person’s love.”
— David Levithan, via twitter.com
Tagged: Love, people's capability to love, loving a person
“narration, n.: I am unreliable with myself, but I’m also the most honest, informed voice I’ve got.”
— David Levithan, via twitter.com
Tagged: self, Self & Identity, self and nature, Self Appreciation, self awareness, Self Acceptance
“nag, v.: The thought won’t go away, so I pass it along to you, again and again.”
— David Levithan, via twitter.com
Tagged: Thoughts, nagging, Feelings, Venting
“nonbeliever, n.: Even when love disappoints you or tears you apart, there is evidence all around you that it still exists.”
— David Levithan, via twitter.com
Tagged: nonbeliever, Love, Love & Relationships, keep on believing in love
“nonfiction, adj.: We’re sold the fantasy novel (called a romance), but we live the story where fantasies only work when they tie to what’s real.”
— David Levithan, via twitter.com
Tagged: romance, Relationships, love & relationship, nonfiction
“nomenclature, n.: I pay attention to how you introduce me, and get far too much satisfaction when you call me yours in some way.”
— David Levithan, via twitter.com
Tagged: Love, romance, Relationships, Belonging To Someone, nomenclature
“nomadic, adj.: Every time we moved, my parents would promise it would be better, but after awhile, I felt it was all just desert.”
— David Levithan, via twitter.com
Tagged: Moving In, moving, Home, Moving Houses, Belonging, Loneliness, nomadic
“nod, n.: After a certain point, it doesn’t need to be a yes – it’s just an acknowledgment of what’s already understood between us.”
— David Levithan, via twitter.com
Tagged: nod, Yes, Connection, Human Connection, Love, Relationship, Love & Connection, love & communication, romance
“nightbird, n.: You're asleep but I am still flying through the room, a mind of restless wings.”
— David Levithan, via twitter.com
Tagged: Love, romance, In love, fleeting feeling, fluttering heart, feelings when in love
“newfound, adj.: I discover that learning about us is also leaning about myself.”
— David Levithan, via twitter.com
Tagged: Love, romance, Relationships, knowing each other, knowing yourself better, Life
“It’s one thing to fall in love. It’s another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.”
— David Levithan, Every Day
Tagged: Falling In Love, Commitment, Relationship, couple, Love, Fate
“nonlinear, adj.: When I say I’ll follow you anywhere, that includes conversation”
— David Levithan, via twitter.com
Tagged: Love, liking someone, Courtship, romance, Flirting, nonlinear
“nonesuch, n.: You will never be perfect or even perfect for me, but you will be good enough to love, and that will be perfectly what I want.”
— David Levithan, via twitter.com
Tagged: Love, romance, Love & Relationships, Relationships, Love & Contentment, nonesuch
“You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.”
— John Green, David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Tagged: Love, Unrequited Love, loving someone who doesn't love you back, Relationships
“nefarious, adj.: There are men and women out there who collect broken hearts and like to display them when they ask you over.”
— David Levithan, via twitter.com
Tagged: Love, Relationships, heart breakers, Players, players in love
“need, v.: Life requires love, but it does not require that love to come from a single source.”
— David Levithan, via twitter.com
Tagged: Love, love & life, love comes in various forms, Inspirational
“necessary, adj.: A molecular balance of attachment and aloneness, the intensity of intersecting and the serenity of the solitary.”
— David Levithan, via twitter.com
Tagged: Love, romance, Relationships, Love & Relationships
“navel, n.: The punctuation of a lost connection; no wonder we’re supposed to contemplate it.”
— David Levithan, via twitter.com
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Breakups, Friendships, Friendship Breakup
“narcissist, n.: It's not so much looking at your own image as it is thinking the whole world exists to reflect back on you.”
— David Levithan, via twitter.com
Tagged: Narcissist, Narcissism, self-absorption, Self Acceptance, Self & Identity
“name, n.: I take a residual satisfaction every time I say it, as if our relationship has become a part of its meaning.”
— David Levithan, via twitter.com
Tagged: Love, romance, Relationships, Labels
“nightmare, n.: I have always been more afraid of the real than the imaginary, so I worry more about your well being than any ghoul or demon.”
— David Levithan, via twitter.com
Tagged: Love, romance, caring, Caring about someone, Concerned
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