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Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?
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David Levithan |
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that's it - hundreds of texts and conversations, thousands upon thousands of words spoken and sent, all boiled down into a single line. is that what relationships become?
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David Levithan |
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It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.
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every-day
david-levithan
wants
desire
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David Levithan |
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The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them.
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faith
levithan
precarious
word
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David Levithan |
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I had no idea what I wanted, only that I wanted something, which is the worst kind of wanting.
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David Levithan |
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Maybe that's it, [...] [w]ith what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe the pieces." [...] "Maybe [...] what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking."
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philosophy
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David Levithan |
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If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions.
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lovers
memories
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David Levithan |
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There are all these moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive.
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David Levithan |
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4401d78
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Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person hasn't suffered like everyone else, doesn't mean they don't hope to still be a good human being in an awful world.
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David Levithan |
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Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving
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every-day
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David Levithan |
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He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears.
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David Levithan |
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What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we've never met.
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death
terrorism
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David Levithan |
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i can't help thinking that 'getting a life' is something only a complete idiot could believe. like you can just drive to a store and get a life. see it in its shiny box and look inside the plastic window and catch a glimpse of yourself in a new life and say, 'wow, i look much happier - i think this is the life i need to get!' take it to the counter, ring it up, put it on your credit card. if getting a life was that easy, we'd be one blissed..
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David Levithan |
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The universe doesn't decide what's right or not right. You do.
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Rachel Cohn & David Levithan |
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I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.
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David Levithan |
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You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree you could be the sun that never leaves the sky this might be the happy ending without the ending this might be a reason to try
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David Levithan |
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30d5b9f
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rolf! what? are you really rolling on the floor laughing? well, please stay down there for a sec while I KICK YOUR ASS.
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humor
acronyms
emoticons
internet-slang
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David Levithan |
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Tikkun olam." Exactly. Basically, it says that the world has been broken into pieces. All this chaos, all this discord. And our job - everyone's job - is to try to put the pieces back together. To make things whole again." And you believe that?" I guess I do. I mean, I don't know how the world broke. And I don't know if there's a God who can help us fix it. But the fact that the world is broken - I absolutely believe that. Just look around ..
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David Levithan |
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I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten. It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF.
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lgbt
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David Levithan |
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edde394
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And I find myself saying, "It wasn't really about her." And finding it's true. What do you mean?" Norah asks. It was about the feeling, you know? She caused it in me, but it wasn't about her. It was about my reaction, what I wanted to feel and then convinced myself that I felt, because I wanted it that bad. That illusion. It was love because I created it as love."
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David Levithan |
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But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.
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relationships
romance
life
love
platonic-love
gay
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David Levithan |
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6f717cc
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sometimes it's okay to cheat on things - but don't ever cheat on people. because once you start, it's very hard to stop. you find out how easy it is to do.
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David Levithan |
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i wish i were someone else, even though i know i'll never, ever be able to get away from what i've done and what's been done to me.
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David Levithan |
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I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt.
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David Levithan |
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tiny: maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. it's gonna hurt. it's gonna hurt because it matters.
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David Levithan |
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You think you know your possibilities. Then other people come into your life and suddenly there are so many more.
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David Levithan |
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I hate the way you talk to me And the way you cut your hair I hate the way you drive my car I hate it when you stare I hate your big dumb combat boots And the way you read my mind I hate you so much, that it makes me sick And even makes me rhyme I hate the way you're always right I hate it when you lie I hate it when you make me laugh Even worse when you make me cry I hate it when you not around And the fact that you didn't call But mostly ..
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David Levithan |
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This is the trap of having something to live for: Everything else seems lifeless.
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David Levithan |
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You have to trust the words. They do not create anything more than themselves.
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David Levithan |
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I find my greatest strength in wanting to be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave. I don't know if I've ever realized it before,[...] I think we both realize it now. If there's no feeling of fear, then there's no need for courage.
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David Levithan |
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But whether or not you are here, you are here--because these words are for you, and they wouldn't exist if you weren't here in some way.
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David Levithan |
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Here's what I think. We all want someone to build a fort with. We want somebody to swap crayons with and play hide-and-seek with and live out imaginary stories with. We start out getting that from our family. Then we get it from our friends. And then, for whatever reasons, we get it in our heads that we need to get that feeling- that intimacy- from a single someone else. We call if growing up. But really, when you take sex out of it, what w..
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friendship
love
julia
companionship
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David Levithan |
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what i really want - and what i never get - is to be appreciated. do you know what it's like to work so hard to make sure everyone's happy, and to have not a single person recognize it
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David Levithan |
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3. You think that looks like a heart? If you do, that's only because you've never seen scrotum.
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internet-slang
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David Levithan |
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It is its own form of conversation -- you can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you can also know them from the way they sing along, whether they like the windows up or down, if they live by the map or by the world, if they feel the pull of the ocean.
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David Levithan |
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If you and I really, truly wanted to change the world, we'd invent more words that started with .
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David Levithan |
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I want to kiss her without counting the seconds. I want to hold her so long that I get to know her skin. I want, I want, I want.
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David Levithan |
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I believe your exact words were: "You're getting too emotional."
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David Levithan |
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e1b4ecc
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If smart people are parodying it, that's a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it.
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David Levithan |
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When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.
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living
life
never-give-up
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David Levithan |
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da6a3ca
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And still, for all the jealousy, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that we're together. That someone like me could find someone like you - it renders me wordless. Because surely words would conspire against such luck, would protest the unlikelihood of such a turn of events. I didn't tell any of my friends about our first date. I waited until after our second, because I wanted to make sure it was real. I wouldn't ..
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David Levithan |
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Maybe, it's not the distance that's the problem, but how you handle it.
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David Levithan |
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You leaned your head into mine, and I leaned my head into yours. Dancing cheek to cheek. Revolving slowly, eyes closed, heartbeat measure, nature's hum. It lasted the length of an old song, and then we stopped, kissed, and my heart stayed there, just like that.
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David Levithan |
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If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.
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David Levithan |