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If you want to be loved, be a lovable. It's a good place to start.

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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me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly.” -Will Grayson (pg. 66)
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It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date. It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit. It just has to be.
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There are few things harder than being born into the wrong body.
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Maybe, it's not the distance that's the problem, but how you handle it.
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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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Holden Caulfield is the embodiment of what we mean by the phrase “young adult” – too young to be a grown-up, but too wise to the world to be completely innocent. He’s caught in the in-between, and that in-between is what all young adult authors write about.
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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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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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next to it was a dvd called 'as i get laid dying,' which had a hospital scene on the front. it was like grey's anatomy, only with less grey and more anatomy.
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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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His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.
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Let’s make plans,” I ventured. And Sofia smiled and said, “No, let’s leave it to chance.
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Fate has a strange way of making plans.
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Eventually she fell asleep, but I kept the phone against my ear, lulled by her breathing, and her breathing again in the background. And yes, it felt like home. Like everything belonged exactly where it was.
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This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attachment to -- I don't give them any benefit of the doubt. And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.
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There is no word for our kind of friendship. Two people who don't see each other a lot, but can make each other effortlessly happy
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I had a sense then of how if we truly understood how many of the unimportant things we do will end up outliving us, we'd never be able to go on.
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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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Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.
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I asked you what you wanted and you said you didn't want anything. And I told you I wasn't planning on giving you anything I was planning on giving you something.
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