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
David Levithan quotes about
successful differences keys
The key to a successful relationship isn’t just in the words, it’s in the choice of punctuation. When you’re in love with someone, a well-placed question mark can be the difference between bliss and disaster, and a deeply respected period or a cleverly inserted ellipsis can prevent all kinds of exclamations.
first-love people firsts
She is my first and only love. Most people know that their first love will not be their only love. But for me, she is both.
moving
Answerless questions can destroy you. Move on.
serendipity together purpose
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
feelings wonder moments
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.
want break stills
Here's what breaks us: Even though we know better, we still want everything to be all right.
teacher teenager school
teenagers are never joking. when seeking to prove a point, principals and teachers should remember that teenagers are never, ever sarcasic or ironic. if they say "I wish someone would drop a bomb on this school right now," that means they have arranged for a nuclear arsenal to be emptied onto the school and should be immediately suspended and ridiculed. if they say they were merely coming up with a joking excuse to postpone a bio test, reply that all jokes are funny, and that since dropping a bomb on a school is not funny, it is therefore not a joke.
wrong-person deals fear-of-being-alone
Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.
romantic falling-in-love love-you
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.
kindness believe caring
I think that if you were somehow able to measure the weight of human kindness, it would have weighed more on 9/11 than it ever had. On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring. I have to believe that.
groundhog-day doors opposites
In Sliding Doors, the whole idea is that every choice you make, and every single thing that happens to you changes the trajectory of your life, and once you are put on that trajectory, there is no way back. But Groundhog Day - which, I tell him, also happens to be a much better movie - says the opposite. It says if you mess up or make the wrong choice, you just have to keep at it until you do it right.
moving mind legs
We just want to walk. Our legs need to move to keep our minds from collapsing.
fate lilies up-to-you
It’s up to you, not fate. True. But it was also up to Lily. That was the trickiest part.
firsts new-life compass
He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything - he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I guess that's the danger with firsts - you lose all sense of proportion.