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
serendipity together purpose
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
feelings wonder moments
There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself.
thinking differences people
This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.
girl lost-love believe
You like him because he's a lost boy. Believe me, I've seen it happen before. But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost themselves. Without fail.
want break stills
Here's what breaks us: Even though we know better, we still want everything to be all right.
ends
I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.
life care staring
If you stare at the center of the universe, there is coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.
love want conquer
I want love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own. It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.
song dark mind
It will affect me in ways I can't even begin to get my mind around. This day is a dark crater. There is no room for songs. The songs are wrong. Every song is wrong. And I don't know what to do without music.
thinking feelings world
I cannot think of a single word to describe what we feel. I think we all feel it, to varying degrees. Perhaps in some other language there is a word for 'the world is terribly wrong.' That feeling of stun and unbelief and abandonment and shock and horror and distress.
teacher teenager school
teenagers are never joking. when seeking to prove a point, principals and teachers should remember that teenagers are never, ever sarcasic or ironic. if they say "I wish someone would drop a bomb on this school right now," that means they have arranged for a nuclear arsenal to be emptied onto the school and should be immediately suspended and ridiculed. if they say they were merely coming up with a joking excuse to postpone a bio test, reply that all jokes are funny, and that since dropping a bomb on a school is not funny, it is therefore not a joke.
long firsts someday
Someday your prince will come," I assure him. "And the first thing I'm going to say to him is, 'What took you so long?
possibility
This isn't even something I've feared, because I never knew it was a possibility.
real want matter
But I want to feel like life matters. I had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.