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
order rivers paradise
i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side.
lying love-you missing
I want to take back the secrets I told you so I can decide now whether to tell them to you again. I want to take back the piece of me that lies in you, to see if I truly miss it. I want to take back at least half the “I love you”s, because it feels safer that way.
moving car watches
Do you know when you cross against traffic? You look down the street and see a car coming, but you know you can get across before it gets to you. So even though there’s a DON’T WALK sign, you cross anyway. And there’s always a split second when you turn and see that car coming, and you know that if you don’t continue moving, it will all be over. That’s how I feel a lot of the time. I know I’ll make it across. I always make it across. But the car is always there, and I always stop to watch it coming.
sleep should-have names
...and suddenly you started singing out your love for me. My name and everything, loud enough to reach the top floors of all the buildings. I should have told you to stop, but I didn’t want you to stop. I didn’t mind if your love for me woke people up. I didn’t mind if it somehow sneaked into their sleep.
love-you mean want
I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean them as much as the other ones.
real happenings insignificant
This is not something insignificant. This is real. This is happening, and this is ours.
two giving trying
Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once.
swimming cadence language
I'm swimming in your cadences that you permeate my very language.
running lying awake
lying awake beside you, these thoughts run through my head.
practice piano making-love
Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results.
watches rebellion
He never wears a watch (his own rebellion against time, against watching).
sexy baby waiting
It’s like, you know how sometimes you see a really sexy baby? Wait...
fall thinking land
maybe tonight you're scared of falling, and maybe there's somebody here or somewhere else you're thinking about, worrying over, fretting over, trying to figure out if you want to fall, or how and when you're gonna land, and i gotta tell you, friends, to stop thinking about the landing, because it's all about falling.
two people causes
Every two people cause and intersection. Every person alters the world.