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
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
tomorrow
All I get is tomorrow.
trying feels
We love and we feel and we try and we hope.
together way moments
Maybe there's a way to keep us in this moment. Not the sad part. But the coming together part.
groundhog-day doors opposites
In Sliding Doors, the whole idea is that every choice you make, and every single thing that happens to you changes the trajectory of your life, and once you are put on that trajectory, there is no way back. But Groundhog Day - which, I tell him, also happens to be a much better movie - says the opposite. It says if you mess up or make the wrong choice, you just have to keep at it until you do it right.
imagine
How amazing it is that friendships can become so full that you can't imagine what your life was like before them.
long hanging-on realizing
She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for.
mystery
We all contain mysteries, especially when seen from the inside.
mother father kissing
The boy I just kissed is talking to my father. The boy I want to kiss again is waiting for my mother to serve pancakes. I must fight the urge to freak.
love-you important deny
I love you-I do-but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because you're always going to leave me, A. We can't deny it. You're always going to leave.
long firsts someday
Someday your prince will come," I assure him. "And the first thing I'm going to say to him is, 'What took you so long?
real want matter
But I want to feel like life matters. I had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.
wrong-person deals fear-of-being-alone
Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.