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
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You are happy even if you are afraid to admit it.
mother thinking should-have
My mother said I should have a 'change of scenery.' The word scenery made be think of a play. And as we were driving around, it made sense that way. Because no matter how much the scenery changed, we were still on the same stage.
want know-it-all knows
I don’t want to know anything, and I want to know it all
real happenings insignificant
This is not something insignificant. This is real. This is happening, and this is ours.
memorial staring standing-still
This is what a memorial is: standing still, staring at something that isn’t ther
simple night forgotten
I had forgotten this about love: how the simple things- the turn away, the turn towards- could be so complicated, and how the complicated things- the stolen night, the right words- could be so simple.
goes-on life-is redundancy
Life goes on is a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on.
thinking people possibility
You think you know your possibilities. Then other people come into your life and suddenly there are so many more.
moving car watches
Do you know when you cross against traffic? You look down the street and see a car coming, but you know you can get across before it gets to you. So even though there’s a DON’T WALK sign, you cross anyway. And there’s always a split second when you turn and see that car coming, and you know that if you don’t continue moving, it will all be over. That’s how I feel a lot of the time. I know I’ll make it across. I always make it across. But the car is always there, and I always stop to watch it coming.
ongoing way fit
There is certainty in a ring. The non-ending, the non-beginning. The ongoing. The way it holds on to you not because it's fastened or stretched or adhered. It holds on because it fits.
ideas kind worst
I had no idea what I wanted, only that I wanted something, which is the worst kind of wanting.
two giving trying
Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once.
long unsure
After working for so long on being sure of each other, sure of this thing, suddenly we were unsure again.
lying people phrases
What a strange phrase — –not seeing other people. As if it’s been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it.