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
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.
ignorance knowing bliss
Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.
faces valuable i-can
I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend.
choices found wanted
Even if neither of us got what we wanted, we found freedom in the third choices.
facts lasts lasting
That lasting things do, in fact, last.
mean next hours
I have already spent roughly five thousand hours asleep next to you. This has to mean something.
night doe said
That's the question, isn't it?" you said one night. "Does death bring freedom, or is it the end of freedom?
looks moments
But death is not freedom. For a moment, it can look like freedom. But then it's death. Anything. Something. Nothing.
thinking matter rational
What did it matter to me? Did I think that by making you rational about one thing, I could make you rational about everything? Maybe. Or maybe I just wanted to save you from your fears
long long-time
Love me less, but love me for a long time
want appreciated
What I really want, and what I never get - is to be appreciated.
standing-on-the-edge standing edges
I'm always standing on the edge of something bad.
kind hubris feels
hubris, n. Every time I call you mine, I feel like I'm forcing it, as if saying it can make it so. As if I'm reminding you, and reminding the universe: mine. As if that one word from me could have that kind of power.