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Every Day (2012) (edit title/settings)

by David Levithan (Author) (edit contributors)

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A has no friends. No parents. No family. No possessions. No home, even. Because every day, A wakes up in the body of a different person. Every morning, a different bed. A different room. A different house. A different life. A is able to access each person's memory, enough to be able to get... read more

Characters/People edit see section history

  • A: The being at the center of this story who wakes up in a new body with a new life every day. Throughout the book, he/she is 16 years old.
  • Justin: The first person A appears as at the beginning of the book. He is Rhiannon's boyfriend. In this body A feels different, a way that he has never felt before - love and a sense of belonging. He has been warned not to fall in love while in another person's body, but he has to overcome his affection. A does not like Justin or how he treats Rhiannon
  • Rhiannon: Justin's girlfriend, and the object of A's affection. One of the most amazing character in this book is her, she has so much love and passion for Justin, and has hope and believes in those who don't see what she see's. Without her strength and courage A wouldn't be who the same, and willing to change.
  • A: Wandering soul.
  • Nathan Daldry: The sixth person A embodies. Nathan plays a significant role as one of few people with a memory of his experience with A. In this guise, A obtains Rhiannon's email address.
  • Megan Powell: While in the body of a cheerleader, A meets Rhiannon face-to-face to tell her the truth about his day-to-day existence.
  • Reverend Poole: A religious man who brings people who have survived possession together to make the general population aware of not succumbing to the Devil's will and to fight demon possession.
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Quotes edit see section history

  • “The sound of words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speaker hears some of the sound from the inside.”
    A
  • “After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know why. You can have theories, but there will never be proof. ❧”
    A
  • “We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough. ❧”
    A
  • “She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for. ❧”
    A
  • “It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else falling in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love. ❧”
    A
  • “Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen. ❧”
    A
  • “Falling in love with someone doesn't mean you know any better how they feel. It means you know how you feel. ❧”
    A
  • “Yes, I could get away with it, but certainly we all have the potential to commit the crime. We choose not to. Every single day, we choose not to. I am no different. I am not the devil. ❧”
    A
  • “The way you looked at me, it couldn't have been anyone else. ❧”
    Rhiannon
  • “This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it's just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be. ❧”
    A
  • “When I saw you today--I didn't know I'd been waiting for you until you were there. And then all of the waiting rushed through me in a second. That's something...but I don't know if it's certainty. ❧”
    Rhiannon
  • “I wanted love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on its own. It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf. ❧”
    A
  • “We all have about 98 percent in common with each other...Race is different purely as a social construction, not as an inherent difference. And religion-whether you believe in God or Yahweh or Allah or something else, odds are that at heart you want the same things. For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.”
    A
  • “This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attachment to -- I don't give them any benefit of the doubt. And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.”
    A
  • “Everybody wants to believe in a higher power. Everybody wants to believe in something bigger than themselves, and everybody wants company in doing that. They want there to be a force of good on earth, and they want an incentive to be part of that force. They want to be able to prove their belief and their belonging, through rituals and devotion. They want to touch the enormity.It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other.....For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.”
  • “Eventually, I came to peace with it. I had to. I realized that this was my life, and there was nothing I could do about it. I couldn't fight the tide, so I decided to float along.”
    A
  • “It's one thing to be love-worthy when you are interacting with your boyfriend; it's quite another when you act the same way with a girl you don't know. I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness.”
    A
  • “Beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.”
    A
  • “Simple and complicated, as most true things are.”
    A
  • “Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.”
    A
  • “Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and wants to be every word you say.”
    A
  • “I don't know what I'm doing. I only know that I'm doing it.”
    A
  • “No pat. No future. Just present. Give it a chance.”
    A
  • “I don't want to throw everything away for something so uncertain.”
    Rhiannon
  • “Life is full of questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.”
    A
  • “You were the exception to the rule.”
    A
  • “People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence.”
    A
  • “I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real.”
    A
  • “Self preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving.”
  • “There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.”
    A
  • “The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender. As I step out of bed and slip on an oversize shirt, everything around me feels like it's the temperature of happiness.”
    A
  • “If you stare at the center of the universe, there is a coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.”
    A
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First Sentence edit see section history

I wake up.

Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

  • Sexual identity: A occupies male and female bodies but is self-concept is not anchored to his sexual identity.
  • Alcoholism and Drug Addiction: Two of the adolescent bodies A occupies struggle with addictions.
  • Mental Illness: One of the adolescent bodies A occupies is immobilized by major depression and suicidal ideations and thoughts.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. David Levithan (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Alfred A.Knopf
Country: United States
Publication Date: August 28, 2012
ISBN: 978-0-307-93188-7
Page Count: 322

Awards edit see section history

  • Nebula (Finalist, 2012: Andre Norton Award)

Classification edit see section history

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Young Adults

There are teen themes in this book including alcoholism, drug abuse, homosexuality and sexual situations.

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