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You have to trust the words. They do not create anything more than themselves.

David Levithan

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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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Trust
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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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Love weaves itself from hundreds of threads.
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When someone breaks up with you, their beauty-- which you took such satisfaction in-- suddenly becomes unfair.
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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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But I want to feel like life matters. I had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.
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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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It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.
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When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.
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The words that matter always stay.
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But I had a feeling I wasn't supposed to find her that way. She was not a needle. This was not a haystack. We were people, and people had ways of finding each other.
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Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.
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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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placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.
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Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?
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As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we’re really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.
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What did it matter to me? Did I think that by making you rational about one thing, I could make you rational about everything? Maybe. Or maybe I just wanted to save you from your fears
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So what else can I tell you? I asked. I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me.
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Jesus died for our sins, Noah says solemnly. What?!? I reply, choking back my thoughts. I was just seeing if you were listening.
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Someday your prince will come, I assure him. And the first thing I'm going to say to him is, 'What took you so long?
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You know what’s a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in order to get to beauty, and even then, when you get there, you still have to wake her up. — Tiny Cooper
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