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
love want conquer
I want love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own. It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.
together normal knows
It won't be a normal life-I know that. But it will be a life. A life together.
want indicators persons
Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.
eye
I only have eyes for you.
running water childhood
There is a part of childhood that is childish, and a part that is sacred. Suddenly we are touching the sacred part -- running to the shoreline, feeling the first cold burst of water on our ankles, reaching into the tide to catch at shells before they ebb away from our fingers. We have returned to a world that is capable of glistening, and we are wading deeper within it.
hurt hipster matter
it's gonna hurt because it matters.
beautiful sadness clay
I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.
body born harder
There are few things harder than being born into the wrong body.
mistake should bigs
I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistake, and I should probably come to my senses before I get there.
air two people
The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender. As I step out of bed and slip on an oversize shirt, everything around me feels like it's the temperature of happiness.
breathing realizing cry
Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.
moving mind legs
We just want to walk. Our legs need to move to keep our minds from collapsing.
heart leave-me-alone ashes
why won't they leave me alone? don't they realize I have a tinder heart and a paper body and that any spark will turn me straight to ash?
mean odds trying
I know the odds are all against me and I know you might not feel this way too but I know I would rather die trying to know if I could mean something to you