David Levithan
David Levithan
David Levithanis an American young-adult fiction author and editor. His first book, Boy Meets Boy, was published by Knopf Books for Young Readers in 2003. He has written numerous works featuring strong male gay characters, most notably Boy Meets Boy and Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth7 September 1972
CityShorts Hill, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
falling-in-love long found
We found out a long time ago that we weren’t meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of me still fell in hope with him.
mom made appetite
You made me lose my appetite, Boomer." "My mom tells me that all the time. Your family must be just like mine!
teacher gay self
I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten. It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF.
curves individuality lines
My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.
answers succeed ends
It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding.
relationship distance problem
Maybe, it's not the distance that's the problem, but how you handle it.
cheating teenager mean
Danger comes in many forms, I suppose. For some people, it might be jumping off a bridge or climbing impossible moutains. For others, it could be a tawdry love affair or telling off a mean-looking bus driver because he doesn't like to stop for noisy teenagers. It could be cheating at cards or eating a peanut even though you're allergic. For me, danger might be getting out from the protective cloak of my family and venturing into the world more of my own, even though I don't know what- or who- awaits me.
use spices spice-of-life
Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices.
girl real boys
You see, Dash -- I was never the girl in your head. And you were never the boy in my head. I think we both knew that. It's only when we try to make the girl or boy in our head real that the true trouble comes. I did that with Carlos, and it was a bad failure. Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head.
kissing color light
I kiss her and she finds the light switch and turns it off, and we're just lit in Pepsi-can colors and it's like we've finally found this other kind of conversation, this conversation in gestures and pulls and pushes and breaths and grasps and teases and glimmers and rubs and expectation.
kissing long skins
I want to kiss her without counting the seconds. I want to hold her so long that I get to know her skin. I want, I want, I want.
disgusting knows
simon: that's disgusting! me: what's disgusting? simon: you know. you put your thing in the place where he, um, defecates.
gay progress tiny
I text tiny a minute later. MADE NEW GAY FRIEND. And he texts back PROGRESS!!!
mom ex-boyfriend three
me: just don't ask about his forty-three ex-boyfriends, okay? or ask him about why he's carrying around an axe. mom:... me: i'm kidding about the axe part.