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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)

David Levithan

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
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It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
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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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I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend.
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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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I guess I don't believe these things can ever be easy, although I also don't see why they have to be hard.
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I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.
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This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.
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aloof, adj. It has always been my habit, ever since junior high school, to ask that question: “What are you thinking?” It is always an act of desperation, and I keep on asking, even though I know it will never work the way I want it to.
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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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It was rather awkward, insofar as we were both teetering between the possibility of something and the possibility of nothing.
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The boy I loved didn't know I existed. Then again, he was obsessed with Camus, so he didn't know if any of us existed.
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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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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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willyoupleasebequiet: are you ready? bluejeanbaby: for what? willyoupleasebequiet: the future willyoupleasebequiet: because i think it just started
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The way you argued with me, you would have thought that we were debating the existence of God or whether or not we should move in together. These kinds of fights can never be won – even if you’re the victor, you’ve hurt the other person, and there has to be some loss associated with that.
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He doesn’t just look upset—he looks newly blind. There is such loss in his eyes, and it permeates every other part of his body.
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Let me hold on to this the way it was, before I knew anything else.
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Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.
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Now when I have to remember a date, all I have to do is consult my rap sheet.
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Here's what breaks us: Even though we know better, we still want everything to be all right.
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