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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
Author
Novelist
Writer
Short Hills
New Jersey
Trust
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Words
Anything

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he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with.
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I can flirt with the best of them, but only when it doesn't matter.
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I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly
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If you start the day reading the obituaries, you live your day a little differently.
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He is much stronger than I think I am. He is mischievous, outgoing, ready to soar through the clouds, while I often feel like the cloud itself.
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I know from experience that beneath every peripheral girl is a central truth. She’s hiding hers away, but at the same time she wants me to see it.
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I want to take back the secrets I told you so I can decide now whether to tell them to you again. I want to take back the piece of me that lies in you, to see if I truly miss it. I want to take back at least half the “I love you”s, because it feels safer that way.
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It's you. You deserve this. There is a reason this is happening to you.
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We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home
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They don’t have silences together they have noise. Mostly his.
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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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