David Levithan Quotes

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

He longed to be lost but he couldn't bear not to be found.

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

In your 20s, you're just a sketch of what you think you're trying to be.

I grew up in a life where the answer was always there, I guess. But now I'm out on my own and still looking for the answer. Nothing is solved for me.

My life was a mystery even as I lived it.

I'm not sure who I am. That's why I keep saying I'm an adventurer that goes out.

At 26, I barely knew who I was.

Like most people in college, I just wasn't really sure who I was.

I'm not even sure who I really am sometimes.

You walked in, laughing, tears welling confused, mingling in your throat. How can you be so many women to so many people, oh you strange girl?

Juno MacGuff: I don't know what kind of girl I am.

God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.

I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost, because then I'd know where I was going, you see.

I don’t know what I’m looking for.” “What not?” “Because … because … I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn’t be able to look for them.

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know. "Oh, sure you know," the photographer said. "She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.

How do you tell somebody how to find what they're looking for when ten years ago you came from the same place, and have yet to find it yourself?

The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.

…balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.

I hear so many things about who I am supposed to be I hardly know what to believe. I am willing to tell all, but what Is it? Doubtless all these myths and legends will be straightened out eventually, but It may take years.

I'm eighteen, and I don't know what I want.

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.

There's a part of you that you can get a hold of, and there's a part of you that you can never get a hold of, and those are opposite things. Who are you? Which one are you? You are combinations of opposites.