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
mean worry embarrassment
Here," she said. "This is for you." "I didn't really get you anything," I sputtered. "I mean, I didn't know that you were going to be here, and--" "Don't worry. It's your embarrassment at not having the thought that counts.
thinking accumulation objects
This is my life, I think. I am an accumulation of objects.
mom made appetite
You made me lose my appetite, Boomer." "My mom tells me that all the time. Your family must be just like mine!
teacher gay self
I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten. It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF.
curves individuality lines
My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.
answers succeed ends
It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding.
cheating teenager mean
Danger comes in many forms, I suppose. For some people, it might be jumping off a bridge or climbing impossible moutains. For others, it could be a tawdry love affair or telling off a mean-looking bus driver because he doesn't like to stop for noisy teenagers. It could be cheating at cards or eating a peanut even though you're allergic. For me, danger might be getting out from the protective cloak of my family and venturing into the world more of my own, even though I don't know what- or who- awaits me.
mom boys ohio
it is so unfair that he lives in ohio, because that should be close enough, but since neither of us drives and neither of us would ever in a million years say, 'hey, mom, do you want to drive me across indiana to see a boy?,' we're kind of stuck.
two people causes
Every two people cause and intersection. Every person alters the world.
mean feelings illusion
And I find myself saying, “It wasn’t really about her.” And finding it’s true. What do you mean?” Norah asks. It was about the feeling, you know? She caused it in me, but it wasn’t about her. It was about my reaction, what I wanted to feel and then convinced myself that I felt, because I wanted it that bad. That illusion. It was love because I created it as love.
nice denial
underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice.
mean floating belief
it's the belief, not the words, that mean everything. it's the floating.
thinking sometimes tricks
I'm not a very happy person," I told him."But sometimes I can trick myself into thinking I am.
names spices hello
Hello, my name is ees Lebkuchen Spice, and I vant to show you my coooooookies...