David Levithan Quotes

.Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.

.Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.

David Levithan

It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it's lonely, because you feel you can't talk about it. You feel it's something between you and the body. You feel it's a battle you will never win...

It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it's lonely, because you feel you can't talk about it. You feel it's something between you and the body. You feel it's a battle you will never win...

David Levithan

Tags: dissonance, dysmorphia, fighting yourself, imperfection, loneliness, struggling, transgender

About Author

David Levithan (born September 7, 1972) is an American young adult fiction author and editor. He has written numerous works featuring strong male gay characters, most notably Boy Meets Boy and Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List. Six of Levithan's books have won or been finalists for the Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature, making him the most celebrated author in the category.

David Levithan Quotes

.Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.

It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it's lonely, because you feel you can't talk about it. You feel it's something between you and the body. You feel it's a battle you will never win...

About Author

Here's what I think. We all want someone to build a fort with. We want somebody to swap crayons with and play hide-and-seek with and live out imaginary stories with. We start out getting that from our...

I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be se...

You think you know your possibilities. Then other people come into your lifeand suddenly there are so many more.

But isn't this a dance? Isn't all of this a dance? Isn't that what we do with words? Isn't that what we do when we talk, when we spar, when we make plans or leave it to chance? Some of it's choreograp...

I wish i were someone else, even though i know i'll never, ever be able to get away from what i've done and what's been done to me.

Fuck this.Fuck this wondering. Fuck this trying and trying. Fuck this belief that two people can become one ideal. Fuck this helplessness. Fuck this waiting for something to happen that probably won't...

There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.

Moments into minutes. Minutes into hours. Hours into days. Days into years. Years into possibility. This will linger.

It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kism...

But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, wo...

Stanchion, n.I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one either. Why does it feel like it's always one or the other? When we embrace, one of us is always holding the other a...

What's the point of all this magic, if no one really knows how to use it? But I guess the same could be said about life. Which is another form of magic, only less showy.

I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. I will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expec...

The world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

Need is never a good basis for any relationship. it has to be much more than that.

You know the reason The Beatles made it so big?...'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That's what e...