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
matter possibility used
We are so used to releasing words, we don't know what to do with them if they stay. No matter how many times we let them go, they come back. The words that matter always stay.
running lying awake
lying awake beside you, these thoughts run through my head.
sleep should-have names
...and suddenly you started singing out your love for me. My name and everything, loud enough to reach the top floors of all the buildings. I should have told you to stop, but I didn’t want you to stop. I didn’t mind if your love for me woke people up. I didn’t mind if it somehow sneaked into their sleep.
love-you mean want
I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean them as much as the other ones.
lovers wanted
For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.
people giving advice
Neophyte, n. There are millions upon millions of people who have been through this before-- why is it that no one can give my good advice?
trying careful persons
I try to be a careful person. Most of the time my carelessness is completely unintentional.
eye doubt bars
We walk into a bar, and you're aware of all the eyes on you. We walk into a bar, and I'm aware of all the eyes on you, too. For you, this translate into confidence. But me? All I can feel is doubt.
ideas numbers matter
When it all come down to it, the thing that matters most in a relationship is principles [...] We have the same idea what’s right and what’s wrong, and that’s got us through any number of things. If you can have that with someone, then you’re most of the way toward love. Not just lover-love. Any kind of love.
swimming cadence language
I'm swimming in your cadences that you permeate my very language.
boys obsessed ifs
The boy I loved didn't know I existed. Then again, he was obsessed with Camus, so he didn't know if any of us existed.
perfect desire belief
yearning n. and adj. At te core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect.
thinking term
...i think of friendship in terms of love...
unbearable goodness bad-things
If goodness can't come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable.