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Love Quotes by David Levithan

219 Love quotes by David Levithan

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A metaphor of love compares it to Sleeping Beauty, showing that thorns must be pushed through to reach beauty. The quotes also mention that love can feel like climbing stairs while life offers an elevator, and they admit fear of making love too important because it might end. They remind us that many things can be loved at once.

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Love is the higher law.

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I will be the one to leave you.

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I am here because of love.

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I'm not in love with you.

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Love me less, but love me for a long time

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“Make more than dust.”

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Its a fine line between love and stalking.

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“And love. I am here because of love.”

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“I wanted love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything.”

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Do I really have to find a word for it? Can't it just be what it is?

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For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.

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“It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else falling with you...”

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“I want to take back at least half the “I love you”s, because it feels safer that way.”

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If I lose it now, I will lose you, too. I know that. I hate it.

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There is always something new to learn about the person you love.

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The minute I knew I was in love was the minute when there was no question about it.

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“And Avery looks up at just that moment and sees the blue-haired boy glancing his way. Some of us applaud. Others look…

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“The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations—all of them rearranging themselves so that this precise,…

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To get something you must give something away. To hold something you must give something away. To love something you must give…

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“People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing…

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“That joy in discovering that the right person at the right time can open all the windows and unlock all the doors.”

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motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.…

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“But does he see everything, or only what he wants to be seeing? This is always one of the great questions of…

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People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them.…

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“The running commentary, the loving support, the jokes and the observations and the random thoughts that are made a little less random…

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Is that all we need? Can the way we say each other's names encompass all our history, all our love, all our…

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You know what’s a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in…

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“ cadence , n . I have never lived anywhere but New York or New England, but there are times when I'm…

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“But that’s the part that’s so unfair. I have nothing else on my mind. How come I have to be the one…

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They never played games with each other, they never had tow worry where they stood, because if either of them had a…

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Teens wanted things that were real, that they connected with, it doesn't have to reflect reality directly. They love 'The Hunger Games'…

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“want to see you, but I’m not sure if we should do that. I want to hear about what’s going on, but…

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“ meander , v. "...because when it all comes down to it, there's no such thing as a two-hit wonder. So it's…

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“At the next song switch, I hang back. I want to see this as well as be a part of it. I…

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“I don't want to love her. I don't want to be in love. People take love's continuity for granted, just as they…

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“For the past year, Neil has assumed that love was like a liquid pouring into a vessel, and that the longer you…

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“He's on the verge of it--we can tell. He is on the verge of finding that very hard truth--that it will never…

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“We wandered around in layers, unable to feel anything firsthand. But Lily—Lily didn’t mind. Lily was mittens and hot chocolate and snow…

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We are not taught "love thy neighbor unless their skin is a different color from yours " or "love thy neighbor unless…

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“I find myself thinking back to something I saw on the local news about a year ago. A teen football player had…

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“You never told me what you saw in him, not convincingly.”

“i nod to the other will grayson, up onstage. he nods to me. we have something between us, him and me. but the truth?…

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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…

“When you break someone's heart, you also break yours.”

“Because toward the end all the words started leaving. Except for the ones that had to lock up at the end of the night.”

“ misgivings , n . Last night, I got up the courage to ask you if you regretted us. "There are things I miss,"…

“Saving others is always more important than saving yourself. It has to be, or none of us would do any good.”