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
sex night gone
"I want you to spend the night," you said. And it was definitely your phrasing that ensured it. If you had said, "Let's have sex," or "Let's go to my place," or even "I really want you," I'm not sure we would have gone quite as far as we did. But I loved the notion that the night was mine to spend, and I immediately decided to spend it with you.
loneliness knowing missing
We remember what it was like to meet someone new. We remember what it was like to grant someone possibility. You look out from your own world and then you step into his, not really knowing what you’ll find there, but hoping it will be something good. Both Ryan and Avery are doing this. You step into his world and you don’t even realize your loneliness is missing. You’ve left it behind, and you don’t notice because you have no desire to turn back.
life
There is the sudden. There is the eventual. And in between, there is the living.
mother pride worry
Pride is allowed to have an element of worry, especially when you are a mother.
force
Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical because we create them.
beautiful ideas ordinary
He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears.
hopeless-romantic way possibility
Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility.
want uncertain
I don’t want to throw everything away for something uncertain.
easy persons easy-things
It's not the easy things that let you get to know a person.
minutes
The minute I knew I was in love was the minute when there was no question about it.
believe fate serendipity
We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.
vocabulary fleeting
Happiness is so rarely a part of my vocabulary, because for me it's so fleeting
choices world said
I guess it's a choice we make," she said. "What's a choice?" I asked. And she said, "How much of the world we let in.
years world hours
The most understandable thing in the world should be how minutes lead to hours, how hours lead to days, how days can make a year. And yet, this neat progression can still be surprising.