Language Quotes by David Levithan

These words are now mine, but soon they’ll be ours.

— David Levithan

A sound waiting to be a word.

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The words that matter always stay.

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I am starting to get tired of relying on words.

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“I love the vagueness of words that involve time.”

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“ breathtaking , adj . Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.”

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I'm swimming in your cadences that you permeate my very language.

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“No word is too grand or too infinitesimal to be considered”

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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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breathtaking, adj. Those moments when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.

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“No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough”

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it's the belief, not the words, that mean everything. it's the floating.

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If there wasn't a word for it, would we realize our masochism as much?

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Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be…

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I find I very rarely live up to my words. And since you know me primarily through my words, there are oh…

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We are so used to releasing words, we don't know what to do with them if they stay. No matter how many…

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“The world was full of waistrels and waifs, sycophants and spies - all of whom put words to the wrong use, who…

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“I want to say more, but don't know what the words are supposed to be. I feel such a tenderness for these…

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I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat.…

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“We are so used to releasing words. We don't know what to do with them if they stay. Not on the walls.…

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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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You can give words, but you can't take them. And when words are given, that is when they are shared. We remember…

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We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up…

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We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it's gone, it's gone. We…

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“ taciturn , adj. There are days you come home silent. You say words, but you're still silent. I used to bombard…

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“ ineffable , adj . these words will ultimately end up being the barest of reflections, devoid of the sensations words cannot…

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“We’d said we’d keep in touch. But touch is not something you can do from a distance. Touch is not something you…

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Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.

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“I wanted every word to last for hours, every gaze to last for days.”

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We are so used to releasing words. We don't know what to do with them if they stay.

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You have to trust the words. They do not create anything more than themselves.

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“What a powerful word, future. Of all the abstractions we can articulate to ourselves, of all the concepts we have that other…

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I cannot think of a single word to describe what we feel. I think we all feel it, to varying degrees. Perhaps…

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I am so used to hints and mixed messages, saying things that might mean what they sort of sound like they mean.…

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“i do not say 'good-bye.' i believe that's one of the bullshittiest words ever invented. it's not like you're given the choice…

— David Levithan