Every Day David Levithan Quotes & Sayings

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel. — David Levithan

And If only I could, I'd make a deal with God... — David Levithan

I wake up.
Immediately I have to figure out who I am. It's not just the body - opening my eyes and discovering whether the skin on my arm is light or dark, whether my hair is long or short, whether I'm fat or thin, boy or girl, scarred or smooth. The body is the easiest thing to adjust to, if you're used to waking up in a new one each morning. It's the life, the context of the body, that can be hard to grasp.
Every day I am someone else. I am myself - I know I am myself - but I am also someone else.
It has always been like this. — David Levithan

It's okay," I tell her.
"It is okay to be happy — David Levithan

I wake up feverish, sore, uncomfortable.
Is it sickness or is it heartbreak?
I can't tell.
The thermometer says I'm normal, but I'm clearly not. — David Levithan

These teenager looks aren't going to last forever, and that there are much better foundation to build a life upon than how attractive you are. — David Levithan

You live each day one at a time
you live every day all at once
you live with the possibility of good-bye
you move on. — David Levithan

You never get involved in the people's lives? The ones you're inhabiting?"
I shake my head.
"You try to leave the lives the way you found them."
"Yeah."
"But what about Justin? What made that so different?"
"You," I say. — David Levithan

Breath and heat and contact and shirts off and skin on skin and smiles and murmurs and the enormity revealing itself in the tiniest of gestures, the most delicate sensations. — David Levithan

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. — David Levithan

But I don't know when that day will arrive, and it would be too easy to forget to marvel at the beauty in this moment. In every moment. — David Levithan

Because I have this theory that when we die, every animal that we've eaten has a chance at eating us back. So if you're a carnivore and you add up all the animals you've eaten - well, that's a long time in purgatory, being chewed — David Levithan

Every day I am someone else. I am myself- I know I am myself- but I am also someone else — David Levithan

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. — David Levithan

Danny is amazed that he feels so comfortable. He is amazed that while there are some people you can see every day and not say a word to, there are other people whom you can see once a year-or once a decade, or once a life-and say anything. — David Levithan

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving — David Levithan

Love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals. — David Levithan

Now she's lit by the warm orange spreading from the horizon as not-quite-day, becomes not-quite-night — David Levithan

She still dotted her i's with full circles and felt genuinely thankful for every sunny day. I believed more in dark clouds, in sharp dots, in needing proof in order to feel trust. — David Levithan

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? — David Levithan

He'll have to prove it to you. Every day, he'll have to prove he's worthy of
you. And if he doesn't, that's it. But I think he will. — David Levithan

We all have the potential to commit the crime. We chose not to. Every single day, we chose not to. I am no different — David Levithan

I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise. — John Green

Here's what I know about the realm of possibility - it is always expanding, it is never what you think it is. Everything around us was once deemed impossible. From the airplane overhead to the phones in our pockets to the choir girl putting her arm around the metalhead. As hard as it is for us to see sometimes, we all exist within the realm of possibility. Most of the limits are of our own world's devising. And yet, every day we each do so many things that were once impossible to us. — David Levithan

I want to say more, but don't know what the words are supposed to be. I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable night time conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no room in the air. — David Levithan

But I don't like it, okay? I don't like how everything is changing. It's like when you're a kid, you think that things like the holidays are meant to show you how things always stay the same, how you have the same celebration year after year, and that's why it's so special. But the older you get, the more you realize that, yes, there are all these things that link you to the past, and you're using the same words and singing the same songs that have always been there for you, but each time, things have shifted, and you have to deal with that shift. Because maybe you don't notice it every single day. Maybe it's only on days like today that you notice it a lot. And I know I'm supposed to be able to deal with that, but I'm not sure I can deal with that.--David Levithan (p. 201 in galley) — David Levithan

If I woke up in a different body every day
if you never knew what I was going to look like tomorrow
would you still love me? — David Levithan

It will affect me in ways I can't even begin to get my mind around. This day is a dark crater. There is no room for songs. The songs are wrong. Every song is wrong. And I don't know what to do without music. — David Levithan

So eventually i gave up. i give up every single day. — David Levithan

Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends. — David Levithan

(Kindness) is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.
-David Levithan (Every Day) — David Levithan