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
silence peaceful darkness
The world is quieter now. It is never quiet, but it can get quieter. What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread. Nighttime is not that. Nighttime still rustles, still creaks and whispers and trembles in its throat. It is not darkness we fear, but our own helplessness within it. How merciful to have been granted the other senses.
expectations stories fiction
I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.
chance said plans
Let’s make plans,” I ventured. And Sofia smiled and said, “No, let’s leave it to chance.
mean next hours
I have already spent roughly five thousand hours asleep next to you. This has to mean something.
phones long waiting
You never let things go unanswered for too long. Emails. Phone calls. Questions. As if you know the waiting is the hardest part for me.
facts lasts lasting
That lasting things do, in fact, last.
smell hair use
I don’t like it when you use my shampoo, because then your hair smells like me, not you.
eye squares faces
My face seems too square and my eyes too big, like I'm perpetually surprised, but there's nothing wrong with me that I can fix.
said wanted
So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.
eye thinking air
And I told you: I think of a photograph you took of me, up in Montreal. You told me to jump in the air, so in the picture, my feet are off the ground. Later, I asked you why you wanted me to do that, and you told me it was the only way to get me to forget about the expression on my face. You were right. I am completely unposed, completely genuine. In my mind’s eye, I picture myself like that, reacting to you.
memories thinking brain
I was starting to think I was making up memories, just to have answers. Our brain does that sometimes. Or at least mine does.
lonely talking slipping
When he talked to you, you seemed to fit in, but when someone else was talking, or he would be distracted, you jsut looked lonely over there. At least to me. But whenever I would tell you that, you'd say "I'm fine. I just slip out of it, you know?" And I'd say "I'll catch you," and you would say, "It's not the kind of slipping you can catch.
needs
Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.
fate way strange
Fate has a strange way of making plans.