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
chance said plans
Let’s make plans,” I ventured. And Sofia smiled and said, “No, let’s leave it to chance.
expectations stories fiction
I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.
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.
eye squares faces
My face seems too square and my eyes too big, like I'm perpetually surprised, but there's nothing wrong with me that I can fix.
lying knows
You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.
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.
eye thinking air
And I told you: I think of a photograph you took of me, up in Montreal. You told me to jump in the air, so in the picture, my feet are off the ground. Later, I asked you why you wanted me to do that, and you told me it was the only way to get me to forget about the expression on my face. You were right. I am completely unposed, completely genuine. In my mind’s eye, I picture myself like that, reacting to you.
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.
lying long needs
As long as we can conjure, who needs anything else? As long as we can agree on the magical lie and be happy, what more is there to ask for? “I loved you from that moment on,” I say. “I loved you from that moment on,” you agree.
lying love-you missing
I want to take back the secrets I told you so I can decide now whether to tell them to you again. I want to take back the piece of me that lies in you, to see if I truly miss it. I want to take back at least half the “I love you”s, because it feels safer that way.