David Levithan Quotes

We are always confronted with choice.

There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

There is always a choice, even if the alternatives don't appear to be equal.

We talk often about choice. Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to choose.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At that moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.

To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.

Choice. It's the word that allows yes and the word that makes no possible. It's the word that puts the free in freedom and takes obligation out of the mix. It's the word upon which adventure, exhilaration, and authenticity depend. It's the word that the cocoon whispers to the caterpillar.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

A spine to my films that's become more evident to me is that many are about the choices people make, and the reverberations of those choices. You go this way, or that way, and either way, there's going to be consequences.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

To remove or not to remove? That is the question.

Life's all about choices. Everyone's destination is the same; only the paths are different.

We all make decisions, and within those decisions, we have consequences.

In life everyone has a choice. The key is: make a right choice.

What would you do if you had to choose?

Living is nothing more or less than doing one thing instead of another.

We are the choices we make.

In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.

You have agency, and you are free to choose. But there is actually no free agency. Agency has its price. You have to pay the consequences of your choices.

I’m afraid you’re going to have to make a choice.

I guess in the end, it doesn’t matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had.

Choosing a path means having to miss out on others

You will find no answers here, just choices.

We make choices and are in turn made by them.