David Levithan Quotes

I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

I know for myself, and maybe I'm weird or whatever, but the whole thing is about constantly redefining identity.

I'm always thinking about what my identity is.

Every one of us at some point in our lives has had the struggle with identity.

I definitely, when I was younger, struggled a little to understand my identity and who I wanted to be.

It's not easy to know who you are and it's very painful and takes a lot of time and that is why a lot of people don't want to put in the effort.

One of the other reasons for writing this book [My Beloved World] was to hold on to the person you first met. More of the world knows about me now and follows me in a way that never happened before. I didn't want me, the inside of me, to change. Because I liked Sonia, the Sonia who has been. So another reason for writing the book was to hold on to that - whatever the best in Sonia was, to try to capture it.

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

It took me a while to find myself.

I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.

One of my problems is to find the self.

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?

My whole life has been a search for finding myself, pretty much.

In many ways, I think I'm still forming my ideas about my own identity in this world.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

I know what my identity is.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.