David Levithan Quotes

Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I needed protection from.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.

There is no safety where there is no strength.

There is no time where I feel like I will fall off. I feel like I will always last.

One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.

A house built on sand is, in fair weather, just as good as if builded on a rock. A cobweb is as good as the mightiest chain cable when there is no strain on it. It is trial that proves one thing weak and another strong.

They're safe,'' he said. "And you're not made of glass". He swept me up in his arms. I laughed. "And I'm not made of glass." He carried me into our room and kicked the door shut behind us.

But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength.

In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.

Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.

I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.

She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her.

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

I am the president who will protect you!

Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.

People, they don't know how to bend; they just break.

I am not fragile.

The European Union is not unbreakable; something that is breakable is extremely valuable.

My father has been a constant source of love and strength in my life.

I'm not made of glass.

[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.

A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go if you want to sit and think. But particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books. If you want to find out about something, the information is in the reference books---the dictionaries, the encyclopedias, the atlases. If you like to be told a story, the library is the place to go.