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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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I'm always standing on the edge of something bad.
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To get something you must give something away. To hold something you must give something away. To love something you must give something away.
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And just like that, the universe goes wrong. Just like that, all the enormity seems to shrink into a ball and float away from my reach. I feel it, and she doesn't. Or I feel it, and she won't.
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I see Nick's number. I debate whether to assign a name to his number. If I commit to that, then I will truly be heartbroken if he never calls me again my heart will knot each and every time I use this phone and see his name in there. I would probably end up having to trash the phone entirely.
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Most people, I've noticed, are instinctively harsh to strangers. They expect every approach to be an attack, every question to be an interruption.
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You don't know, but I'm noticing.
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I never know what you really want, if I can give it to you, or if I’m already too late.
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You are so close, and I can’t reach you.
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arrears, n. My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that. It was a mistake, you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.
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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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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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Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough.
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lying awake beside you, these thoughts run through my head.
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Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You can’t exist on a diet of humor alone, but you can’t exist on a diet without it, either.
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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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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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Then I go in the den and turn on Law & Order, since the only thing i can really count on in life is that whenever I turn on the TV, there will be a Law & Order episode.
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I feel the universe is telling me something. And it doesn't even matter if it's true or not. What matters is that I feel it, and believe it.
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