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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
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Short Hills
New Jersey
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Hundreds
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i have never had anybody talk to me like this. this is not a flirty sixth-grade phone call or bantering with friends or words passed in a note. i feel that if my soul could talk it would talk like this.
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Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.
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Maybe there is hope in the fragments, that what is lost can always be filled in by someone who knows.
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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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Little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance.
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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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I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.
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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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and when he catches me off guard and says 'i love you' i catch him off guard and say 'i need your help.
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I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean them as much as the other ones.
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Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.
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Falling in love with someone doesn’t mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.
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being with someone for over a year can mean that you love them … but it can also mean you’re trapped.
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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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I have no idea how he knows when I need him. We can go weeks without speaking, and then, when my blue moods threaten to turn black, he will show up and tell me my moods are azure indigo cerulean cobalt periwinkle and suddenly the blue will not seem so dark, more like the color of a noon-bright sky. He brings the sun.
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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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yearning n. and adj. At te core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect.
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There are many things that can keep you in a relationship, I say. Fear of being alone. Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life. A decision to settle for something that's okay, because you don't know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better, even if you know he won't change.
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Belonging. Togetherness. These words are as complicated and confusing as the word love. It’s probably all the same thing. Or it would be if we let it be. I can only guess from observation.
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I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale-- why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster.
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