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Friendship Quotes by David Levithan

40 Friendship quotes by David Levithan

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David Levithan shows that friendship can lift us through loss and celebrate long, full lives. He describes a friend as a key that unlocks a personal fortress of cynicism, and as someone whose honesty lets us take things at face value. He also notes that true friends are people we spend time with, not just share moments with.

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...i think of friendship in terms of love...

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I text tiny a minute later. MADE NEW GAY FRIEND. And he texts back PROGRESS!!!

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“And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.”

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I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend.

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“It's b******* to think of friendship and romance being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variatons of the…

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“There are friends, but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with.”

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“There is no word for our kind of friendship. Two people who don't see each other often, but can make each other…

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There is no word for our kind of friendship. Two people who don't see each other a lot, but can make each…

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We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re…

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How amazing it is that friendships can become so full that you can't imagine what your life was like before them.

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“He's just a friend, we'd argue. But if he was just a friend, why was he hidden, why were we so upset…

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“We saw our friends die. But we also see our friends live. So many of them live, and we often toast their…

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“We spend most of the day together at school, but not in a way that limits our interactions with other people. If…

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This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attachment to -- I don't give them any benefit…

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But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I…

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“They had built a friendship strong enough to withstand the disappearance of kisses. It was off balance, at first, for sure- their…

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“When I was younger, I craved friendship and closeness. I make bonds without acknowledging how quickly and permanently they would break. I…

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“I have spent years of my life sitting in my room, creating defenses of cynicism, darkness, and bleakness. Jed's friendship is the…

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“To love--to fall--is not a question. To touch--to kiss--to speak--those are questions. There is nothing worse than a ruined friendship. There is…

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I've lost track of where friendship ends and falling begins. (this is the foolish refrain of the hopelessly devoted.) there are times…

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“i have a friend request from some stranger on facebook and i delete it without looking at the profile because that doesn't…

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This is what you do now to give your day topography--scan the boxes, read the news, see the chain of your friends…

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incessant adj. The doubts. You had to save me from my constant doubts. That deep-seeded feeling that I wasn't good enough for…

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“Death is hard, and facing death is painful. But even more painful is the feeling that no one cares. To not have…

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“He didn't want to say Let's just be friends or I hope we can stay friends, because that made friendship sound like…

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“We are your shadow uncles, your angel godfathers, your mother’s or your grandmother’s best friend from college, the author of that book…

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There are times I think of us all and I wish we were back in second grade. Not really that young. But…

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“Here's what I think. We all want someone to build a fort with. We want somebody to swap crayons with and play…

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“The three of us do not go out very often as the three of us. I think Daniel is perfect for Jed,…

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“I once told Amanda, my best friend in high school, that I could never be with someone who wasn’t excited by rainstorms.…

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It doesn't feel like a date. It doesn't feel like friendship. It feels like something that fell off the tightrope but hasn't…

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It's almost scary how amateur I am when it comes to musicals - I'm a musical goer, but I am not as…

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This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.

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One of my best friends is named David Leventhal, and it has always been a constant source of amusement to see how…

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Its almost scary how amateur I am when it comes to musicals - Im a musical goer, but I am not as…

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Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re…

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i have never had anybody talk to me like this. this is not a flirty sixth-grade phone call or bantering with friends…

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“I hate the phrase 'more than friends'," Joni told me one night not long ago. "It's such nonsense. When I'm going out…

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“There are friends, but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with. There's a false beast that…

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“here’s the sick, twisted thing: part of me thinks i deserve this. that maybe if i wasn’t such an asshole, isaac would…

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“Patrick: Is she worth the trouble? Cameron: I thought she was- Patrick: Either she is, or she isn't. So give it a shot, or…

“We saw our friends die. But we also see our friends live. So many of them live, and we often toast their long and…

maybe tonight you're scared of falling, and maybe there's somebody here or somewhere else you're thinking about, worrying over, fretting over, trying to figure…

“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?…

The terrorists-those nineteen people, with hundreds or maybe thousands behind them-did the worst thing you can possibly imagine. But tens of millions people did…

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.”