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I didn't let her go. She went. It's not my fault. She did it. She could undo it. This is feeling so fucking famliar. Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Of is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else?
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loneliness
rant
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David Levithan |
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9adb09e
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I don't want you to think I got through this undamaged, okay? But I'm learning to live with it. Because otherwise, the damage is all you are.
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David Levithan |
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I measure the moment in the heartbeats I skip
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David Levithan |
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Laughter rarely lasts longer than a few seconds, it's true. But how enjoyable those few seconds are.
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David Levithan |
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42a6c0a
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Let's always love each other, and never be in love with each other.
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love
unrequited-love
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David Levithan |
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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. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life.
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David Levithan |
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I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.
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loneliness
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David Levithan |
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There is no reason that we should ever be ashamed of our bodies or ashamed of our love.
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David Levithan |
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She asked me what was wrong, and I told her I had to end it. She was surprised, and asked my why I thought so. I told her it wasn't a thought, more a feeling, like I couldn't breathe and knew I had to get some air. It was a survival instinct, I told her. She said it was time for dinner. Then she sat me down and told me not to worry. She said moments like this were like waking up in the middle of the night: You're scared, your'e disoriented,..
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David Levithan |
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you know, how people say it's good luck if a bird shits on you? and people believe it! i just want to grab them and say, 'dude, don't you realize this whole superstition was made up because no one could think of anything else good to say to a person who'd just been shit upon?
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David Levithan |
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65bfa36
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He says presents aren't important, but I think they are - not because of how much they cost, but for the opportunity they provide to say I understand you.
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David Levithan |
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There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you're in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself. If the moment doesn't pass, that's it - you're done. And if the moment does pass, it never goes that far. It stands in the distance, ready for whenever you want it back. Sometimes it's even there when you thought you were searching for something else, like an escape route, or your lover's face.
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David Levithan |
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82b326e
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I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.
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David Levithan |
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ce3ba65
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I never know what you really want, if I can give it to you, or if I'm already too late.
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David Levithan |
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encroach, The first three nights we spent together, I couldn't sleep. I wasn't used to your breathing, your feet on my legs, your weight in my bed. In truth, I still sleep better when I'm alone. But now I allow that sleep isn't always the most important thing.
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David Levithan |
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7943cca
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You are happy even if you are afraid to admit it.
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David Levithan |
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af6083b
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Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse.
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David Levithan |
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5e9de9a
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The world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.
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xenophobia
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David Levithan |
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bd2be9a
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It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it's lonely, because you feel you can't talk about it. You feel it's something between you and the body. You feel it's a battle you will never win . . . and yet you fight it day after day, and it wears you down. Even if you try to ignore it, the energy it takes to ignore it will exhaust you.
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loneliness
dysmorphia
fighting-yourself
dissonance
imperfection
transgender
struggling
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David Levithan |
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daffb08
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Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.
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David Levithan |
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69a3167
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If you want to be loved, be a lovable. It's a good place to start.
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David Levithan |
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tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. i live in a big goddamned weltzschermz ocean, you know? and so do you.
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sadness
weltschmerz
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David Levithan |
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dfb7004
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You never let things go unanswered for too long. Emails. Phone calls. Questions. As if you know the waiting is the hardest part for me.
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David Levithan |
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0cc32c9
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When is the night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply when you realize that you have to?
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Rachel Cohn David Levithan |
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Thats the dilemma isn't it? when you're single, there's the sadness and joy of . And when you're paired, there's the sadness and joy of .
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David Levithan |
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I find myself thinking back to something I saw on the local news about a year ago. A teen football player had died in a car accident. The cameras showed all his friends after the funeral--these big hulking guys, all in tears, saying, "I loved him. We all loved him so much." I started crying, too, and I wondered if these guys had told the football player they loved him while he was alive, or whether it was only with death that this strange w..
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meaning
life
love
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David Levithan |
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64cacd0
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We all contain mysteries, especially when seen from the inside.
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David Levithan |
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98995aa
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Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results.
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David Levithan |
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7808ea2
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Are you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire?
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David Levithan |
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There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.
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Rachel Cohn & David Levithan |
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Once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you're breathing it in. Even after smoke becomes air, there is the memory of smoke. I am seeing as if by the light of a match, a glimpse of my life and having it feel right.
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optimism
love
inspirational
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David Levithan |
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97777d3
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Tony:...but you need something to do about Noah. Paul: I know, I know. The only problem being that (a) he thinks I'm getting back with my ex-boyfriend, (b) he thinks I'll only hurt him, because (c) I've already hurt him and (d) someone else has already hurt him, which means that I'm hurting him even more. So (e) he doesn't trust me, and in all fairness, (g) every time I see him, I (h) want everything to be right again and I (i) want to kiss..
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David Levithan |
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If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I am going to grab the nearest ghostwritten James Patterson romance novel and I am going to follow you through this store reading it out loud until you relent. Would you prefer me to read from Daphne's Three Tender Months with Harold or Cindy and John's House of Everlasting Love? I guarantee, your sanity and your indie street cred won't last a chapter. And they are ..
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David Levithan |
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There's no such thing as ready, there's only willing.
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Rachel Cohn & David Levithan |
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Please may this not be a game. Please may this not be a game. Because if it's a game, I know I'm going to lose.
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David Levithan |
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We wish we could have been there for you. We didn't have many role models of our own--we latched on to the foolish love of Oscar Wilde and the well-versed longing of Walt Whitman because nobody else was there to show us an untortured path. We were going to be your role models. We were going to give you art and music and confidence and shelter and a much better world. Those who survived lived to do this. But we haven't been there for you. We..
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glbt
role-models
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David Levithan |
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72cd6e0
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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.
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Rachel Cohn & David Levithan |
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Why do you lie" I ask her. "To block the truth." Fair enough. Naomi goes on. "Where did we get it in our heads that we need truth all the time? Sometimes lies are nice, you know? You don't have to know the truth all the time. It's too exhausting."
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Rachel Cohn David Levithan |
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But, you see, that's the luxury of being a lout - you get to be selective about when you care and when you don't. The rest of us get stuck when your care goes shallow.
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Rachel Cohn & David Levithan |
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because when it all comes down to it, there's no such thing as a two-hit wonder. So it's better just to have that one song that everyone knows, instead of diluting it with a follow-up that only half succeeds. I mean, who really cares what Soft Cell's next single was, as long as we have 'Tainted Love'?" I stop. You're still listening. "Wait," I say. "What was I talking about? How did we get to 'Tainted Love'?" "Let's see," you say, "I believ..
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David Levithan |
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The Beatles." "What about The Beatles?" "They nailed it." "Nailed what?" "Everything." "What do you mean?" Dev takes his arm and puts it right against mine, skin to skin, sweat on sweat, touch on touch. Then he glides his hand into mine and intertwines our fingers. "This," he says. "This is why The Beatles got it." "I'm afraid I'm not following..." "Other bands, it's about sex. Or pain. Or some fantasy. But The Beatles, they knew what they ..
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david-levithan
rachel-cohn
the-beatles
quotes
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Rachen Cohn David Levithan |
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All this hoping for nothing-or someone-that's maybe hopeless
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life
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Rachel Cohn & David Levithan |
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9df387d
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That's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things. You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.
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Rachel Cohn & David Levithan |
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Although, 's origin circa 1627 made me still love the word, even if I'd ruined its applicability to my connection with Snarl. (I mean !) Like, I could totally see Mrs. Mary Poppencock returning home to her cobblestone hut with the thatched roof in Thamesburyshire, Jolly Olde England, and saying to her husband, "Good sir Bruce, would it not be wonderful to have a roof that doesn't leak when it rains on our green shires, and stuff?" And Sir..
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humor
lily
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Rachel Cohn & David Levithan |