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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
Author
Novelist
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Short Hills
New Jersey
Mom
Advice
Giving
Kind
Like
Grayson
Goldfish
Snail
Romantic

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That lasting things do, in fact, last.
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it's gonna hurt because it matters.
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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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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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If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore.
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motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.
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Our moments are music, and sometimes – just sometimes – we can catch them and put them into some lasting form. If we didn’t have music, I don’t think we could ever be truly happy, and if we didn’t have special moments, we would never find music.
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With some break-ups, all you can think about afterwards is how badly it ended and how much the other person hurt you. With others, you become sentimental for the good times and lose track of what went wrong.
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Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah
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We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home
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I can flirt with the best of them, but only when it doesn't matter.
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We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.
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She transforms once again into someone carefree, and I transform into someone whose only care is her.
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No, really,' I said. 'I think she's great. And I honestly like her about twenty more times now than I did when we were dating. But love needs to have a future. And Sofia and I don't have a future. We've just had a good time sharing the present, that's all.
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I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own.
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She is my first and only love. Most people know that their first love will not be their only love. But for me, she is both.
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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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The world, right now, is only us.
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Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.
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It's the way you say thank you like you're genuinely thankful. I have never met anyone else who does that on a regular basis.
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