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
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.
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.
love-you needs helping
and when he catches me off guard and says 'i love you' i catch him off guard and say 'i need your help.
reason happenings deserve
It's you. You deserve this. There is a reason this is happening to you.
geometric-shapes broken definitions
You existed. You existed now as a fractal. Definition: A fractal is generally a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be broken into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole. Maybe I was a fractal. Maybe the photographer was a fractal. Maybe we were all fractals.
thinking live-your-life way-to-live
But I think we were walking around like we were invincible. And maybe that's a bad way to live your life. Because you're not invincible. Nobody is. And maybe now that we've learned that, we'll be better.