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
knowing space impossible
Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse.
curves individuality lines
My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.
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.
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!
falling-in-love long found
We found out a long time ago that we weren’t meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of me still fell in hope with him.
giving trying way
How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence of yourself that says it better than you ever could?
thinking accumulation objects
This is my life, I think. I am an accumulation of objects.
distance feelings doe
There has to be a moment at the beginning where you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself. If the moment doesn’t pass, that’s it—you’re done. And if the moment does pass, it never goes that far. It stands in the distance, ready for whenever you want it back. Sometimes it’s even there when you thought you were searching for something else, like an escape route, or your lovers’ face.
feelings moments that-moment
But we comforted ourselves with what we really meant to say, which was: "I don't normally feel this good about what I'm doing." Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.
stupid world-love wish
the world loves stupid labels. i wish we got to choose our own.
strong brave bravery
I find my greatest strengths in wanting ti be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave.
plato ideas soul
But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily that I felt we'd all been duped by Plato and the idea of a soul mate. Just in case it turned out that she was mine.
long people esoteric
Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.
want steps mittens
I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale-- why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster.