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
found lost being-true
Even though I'm seventeen, I guess I still thought this would always be true - that there would always be that lost-and-found, and not the lost-and-still-lost that I am now trapped inside.
long hanging-on realizing
She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for.
breathing realizing cry
Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.
heart thinking hands
We hold hands as we walk through town. If anybody notices, nobody cares. I know we all like to think of the heart as the center of the body but at this moment, every conscious part of me is in the hand that he holds. It is through that hand, that feeling, that I experience everything else.
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.
love-you kissing night
fraught, adj. Does every “I love you” deserve an “I love you too”? Does every kiss deserve a kiss back? Does every night deserve to be spent on a lover? If the answer to any of these is “No,” what do we do?
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.
keys imbalance
The key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us.