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
wrong-person deals fear-of-being-alone
Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.
romantic falling-in-love love-you
It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.
tomorrow
All I get is tomorrow.
people lessons want
I want to know why this is such a part of me. I want to know why this thing that happened to other people has happened so much to me. I keep looking for the lesson.
wonder imagine gravity
gravity, n. I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.
kindness believe caring
I think that if you were somehow able to measure the weight of human kindness, it would have weighed more on 9/11 than it ever had. On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring. I have to believe that.
together way moments
Maybe there's a way to keep us in this moment. Not the sad part. But the coming together part.
life long secret
The secret to living long is to have something to live for.
groundhog-day doors opposites
In Sliding Doors, the whole idea is that every choice you make, and every single thing that happens to you changes the trajectory of your life, and once you are put on that trajectory, there is no way back. But Groundhog Day - which, I tell him, also happens to be a much better movie - says the opposite. It says if you mess up or make the wrong choice, you just have to keep at it until you do it right.
moving mind legs
We just want to walk. Our legs need to move to keep our minds from collapsing.
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.
missing matter way
That no matter what i did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed.
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.