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I feel the universe is telling me something. And it doesn't even matter if it's true or not. What matters is that I feel it, and believe it.
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David Levithan |
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Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah
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youth
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David Levithan |
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a33c9c3
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It is very hard to stay alive just for your own sake. It is very hard to stare into day after day without another familiar face staring back. It turns your heart into a purposeless muscle.
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David Levithan |
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642bf72
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I wonder if it's possible to have happiness without it being at someone else's expense.
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David Levithan |
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e26c205
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Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.
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David Levithan |
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I've never understood why looking hot had to be equated with sex and conquest. Whatever happened to anticipation, to courtship, to true love? Can't a person look hot and not have it mean something? Call me an old-fashioned Naomi bitch, but I'm holding out for true love. Even if it's an unattainable fantasy
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David Levithan |
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me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth.
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David Levithan |
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There was a pause. I was still scared by every gap in our conversation, fearing that this was it, the point where we had nothing left to say. I was still trying to impress you, and I still wanted to be impressed by you, so I could pass along pieces of your impressiveness to my friends, convincing myself this was possible.
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David Levithan |
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97385b8
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In a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I am the absence of dream. But I don't want to live as an absence. I move to keep things whole. Because sometimes I feel drunk on positivity. Sometimes I feel amazement at the tangle of words and lives, and I want to be a part of that tangle. "Game over," you say, and I don't know which I take more exception to- the fact that you say that it's over, or..
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David Levithan |
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91c07a1
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Because it is senior year I have begun to see things as potential absences. The things I love will become the things I'll miss.
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David Levithan |
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I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.
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love
relationships
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David Levithan |
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b0e38da
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Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical because we create them.
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David Levithan |
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60ef46e
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Little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance.
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David Levithan |
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d1f7d52
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It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being. It is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings. It's a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully.
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David Levithan |
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f121ffd
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because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.
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David Levithan |
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4c5d538
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Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends.
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everyday
inspirational
days
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David Levithan |
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When is a night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply realize that you have to? When the club closes or when you everyone leaves? "It's over when you decide it's over," she says. "When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky." --
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nick
norah
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David Levithan |
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36ce6a8
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It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.
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love
romance
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David Levithan |
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61cda1e
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Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else?
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David Levithan |
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9c79981
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With all due respect, if you're forty-three, then I'm a fetus.
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lie
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David Levithan |
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006efad
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We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time.
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David Levithan |
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And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.
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David Levithan |
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66ad220
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I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else.
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David Levithan |
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I'm not a very happy person," I told him."But sometimes I can trick myself into thinking I am."
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David Levithan |
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736ac94
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There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one.
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David Levithan |
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339e692
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When it comes to true dance, it's not about how you look, it's all about the joy you feel.
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David Levithan |
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cc9e2d8
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there was a time before you but I can't remember it now a time before your beauty and I were formally introduced I'm sure I lived without you but I don't remember how can't imagine living without these feelings you've produced just one glance and my life was redrawn just one word and my vocabulary changed I asked the time and you said 'what's the hurry?' you asked my name and I almost forgot
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infatuation
love
meetings
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David Levithan |
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a5aa812
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A sound waiting to be a word.
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David Levithan |
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it's the belief, not the words, that mean everything. it's the floating.
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David Levithan |
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Most times, when I'm having sex, I'd rather be reading." This was, I admit, a strange thing to say on a second date. I guess I was just giving you a warning. "Most times when I'm reading," you said, "I'd rather be having sex"."
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sex
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David Levithan |
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ef3759e
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She is carrying herself through the day, and it's not an easy task.
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David Levithan |
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I am proud that I defy your categories. I am proud that I don't fit easily into any box. I am proud of all the things I am and all the things i can be. Question yourself every time you think you only see one thing in me.
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David Levithan |
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d3701fd
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In my experience, desire is desire, love is love.
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David Levithan |
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6bb84d5
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You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
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David Levithan |
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You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together. And then everything falls apart anyway.
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David Levithan |
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777c3e1
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There is always something new to learn about the person you love.
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David Levithan |
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381289c
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So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.
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David Levithan |
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this might be the happy ending without the ending
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David Levithan |
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e3c67f9
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In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals.
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David Levithan |
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I love the vagueness of words that involve time. 'It took him awhile to come back' -- it could be a matter of minutes or hours, days or years. It is easy for me to say it took me awhile to know. That is about as accurate as I can get. There were sneak previews of knowing, for sure. Instance that made me feel, oh, this could be right, But the moment I shifted from a hope that needed to be proven to a certainty that would be continually chal..
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David Levithan |
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If other people see you differently, you'll end up seeing them differently, too.
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David Levithan |
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stanchion, n. I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one either. Why does it feel like it's always one or the other? When we embrace, one of us is always holding the other a little tighter.
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David Levithan |
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c65f432
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You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.
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honesty
lies
truth
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David Levithan |
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a1c467f
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Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.
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David Levithan |