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
honestly matters poorly reflects second true whether
I can honestly say I've never thought for a second about whether a character reflects poorly on any group. All that matters to me is that the character is true to my belief in who he or she is.
knowing-who-you-are trying want
I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.
afar and-love watches
I should talk to him I know I should talk to him. But I do not talk to him. I watch after him from afar and love him.
elevators stairs
Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.
dream breathing breathe
I am breathing. In dreams, we never bother to breathe.
tests love-someone
Every time you love someone, you put not just your faith in them, but your faith in everything to the test.
senior jobs believe
In school, the year was the marker. Fifth grade. Senior year of high school. Sophomore year of college. Then after, the jobs were the marker. That office. This desk. But now that school is over and I've been working at the same place in the same office at the same desk for longer than I can truly believe, I realize: You have become the marker. This is your era. And it's only if it goes on and on that will have to look for other ways to identify the time.
mistake would-be lapses
arrears, n. My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that. "It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.
curves individuality lines
My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.
nice denial
underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice.
fetus three forty
With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus.
nice believe faults
I couldn't fault her for believing, because I had to imagine i was nice to have that illusion still intact.
filled-in fragments lost
Maybe there is hope in the fragments, that what is lost can always be filled in by someone who knows.
somewhere-else want persons
When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else.