simon: that's disgusting! me: what's disgusting? simon: you know. you put your thing in the place where he, um, defecates.

David Levithan

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People read vampire novels and say, Oh I want to read another vampire novel. People read fantasy, and theyre like, Oh I love fantasy. I dont know that people are necessarily finishing Hunger Games and immediately wanting to read another dystopian tale.

vampire games people

My main piece of advice would be dont worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also dont be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and dont be afraid.

writing giving book

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are writt... by David Levithan

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.

emotional character long

Teens wanted things that were real, that they connected with, it doesn't have to reflect reality directly. They love 'The Hunger Games' not because it's real in that it happens, but the emotions there are real, and it's very relatable.

real games love

I see no sin in a kiss. I only see sin in the condemnation by David Levithan

I see no sin in a kiss. I only see sin in the condemnation

condemnation kissing sin

And once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.

devil people thinking

Our lives change. Our feelings for each other change. Our bearings change. The song changes. The air changes. The temperature of the shower changes. Accept this. We must accept this.

life-changing air song

There is the sudden. There is the eventual. And in between, there... by David Levithan

There is the sudden. There is the eventual. And in between, there is the living.

life

...he hopes that maybe it'll make people a little less scared of two boys kissing than they were before, and a little more welcoming to the idea that all people are, in fact, born equal, no matter who they kiss or screw, no matter what dreams they have or love they give.

kissing dream boys

We remember what it was like to meet someone new. We remember what it was like to grant someone possibility. You look out from your own world and then you step into his, not really knowing what you’ll find there, but hoping it will be something good. Both Ryan and Avery are doing this. You step into his world and you don’t even realize your loneliness is missing. You’ve left it behind, and you don’t notice because you have no desire to turn back.

loneliness knowing missing

We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust. That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.

asks dust ends

We wish we could have been there for you. We didn't have many role models of our own--we latched on to the foolish love of Oscar Wilde and the well-versed longing of Walt Whitman because nobody else was there to show us an untortured path. We were going to be your role models. We were going to give you art and music and confidence and shelter and a much better world. Those who survived lived to do this. But we haven't been there for you. We've been here. Watching as you become the role models.

role-models giving art

... I love books about freaks," because I am one. You might be, t... by David Levithan

... I love books about freaks," because I am one. You might be, too. Let's be freaks together?

together might book

no matter how happy we are, no matter how much we want our night to stretch out infinitely, sleep is inevitable.

want sleep night

You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together. And then everything falls apart anyway.

effort trying fall

With some people ,the minute you start talking, it feels like you've known them for years. It only means that you were supposed to meet sooner. You're feeling all the time you should have known each other, but didn't. That time still counts. You can definitely feel it.

should-have talking mean

If you let the world in, you open yourself up to the world. Even if the world doesn't know that you're there.

ifs knows world

There is no reason that we should ever be ashamed of our bodies o... by David Levithan

There is no reason that we should ever be ashamed of our bodies or ashamed of our love.

our-love body reason

That's what it felt like - that if I let a little of the hurt out, it would keep pouring out until I was a deflated balloon of a person, with a big monster of hurt in front of me.

pouring hurt monsters

Pink is female - but why? Are girls any more pink than boys? Are boys any more blue than girls? It's something that has been sold to us, mostly so other things can be sold to us.

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