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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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Short Hills
New Jersey
Snail
Romantic
Mom
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Grayson
Goldfish

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Maybe tonight you're scared of falling, and maybe there's somebody here or somewhere else you're thinking about, worrying over, fretting over, trying to figure out if you want to fall, or how and when you're gonna land, and i gotta tell you, friends, to stop thinking about the landing, because it's all about falling.
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This is the thing they don't tell you about being a third wheel - it's not like you're the wheel that's added on. You were one of the original two wheels, but suddenly you're not so important anymore. The relationship drives fine without you.
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Falling in love with someone doesn’t mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.
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When someone breaks up with you, their beauty-- which you took such satisfaction in-- suddenly becomes unfair.
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This is the trap of having something to live for: Everything else seems lifeless.
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I don’t want you to think I got through this undamaged, okay? But I’m learning to live with it. Because otherwise, the damage is all you are.
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Love weaves itself from hundreds of threads.
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It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.
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Tell me a way you think this can work. We'll find a way, I tell her. That's not an answer. It's a hope. Hope's gotten us this far. Not answers.
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Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.
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You are happy even if you are afraid to admit it.
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We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust. That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.
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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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this blue shirt i have is practically the same color as my jeans, and looking all-blue is something only cookie monster can pull off.
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Things rarely get fixed the way they need to be.
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Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?
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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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You wanna-I dunno-get coffee or something sometime?
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Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.
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It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding.
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