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me: just don't ask about his forty-three ex-boyfriends, okay? or ask him about why he's carrying around an axe. mom:... me: i'm kidding about the axe part.

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
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it's gonna hurt because it matters.
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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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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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It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it’s lonely, because you feel you can’t talk about it.
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And still, for all the jealously, 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.
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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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A sound waiting to be a word.
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the world loves stupid labels. i wish we got to choose our own.
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The terrorists-those nineteen people, with hundreds or maybe thousands behind them-did the worst thing you can possibly imagine. But tens of millions people did the right thing...On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring.
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I don’t want to throw everything away for something uncertain.
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People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don't acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to the skin. These are memories that will remain, memories of the time when there was still time left.
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I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable. I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.
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It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present.
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dissonance, n. Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk to you and you won't. Hours when every noise you make interferes with my silence. Weeks when there is a buzzing in the air, and we both pretend we don't here it.
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Honestly, I'm just trying to live day to day
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Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?
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But the thing about a cry for help is that someone else needs to be around to hear it.
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So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.
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Every time you love someone, you put not just your faith in them, but your faith in everything to the test.
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Indelible, adj. That first night, you took your finger and pointed to the top of my head, then traced a line between my eyes, down my nose, over my lips, my chin, my neck, to the center of my chest. It was so surprising. I knew I would never mimic it. That one gesture would be yours forever.
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