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

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We love and we feel and we try and we hope.
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I still don’t know if this is a good quality or a bad one, to be able to be in the moment and then step out of it.
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There is certainty in a ring. The non-ending, the non-beginning. The ongoing. The way it holds on to you not because it's fastened or stretched or adhered. It holds on because it fits.
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In my experience, desire is desire, love is love.
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I don’t like it when you use my shampoo, because then your hair smells like me, not you.
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love is tied to truth. I think of them as unhappily conjoined twins.
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People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don't acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to the skin. These are memories that will remain, memories of the time when there was still time left.
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Every single answer starts with the phrase 'I don't know.' But most of the time she does know, if I give her the time and the space in which to answer.
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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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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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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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It's only a game if there is an absence of meaning. And we've already gone too far for that.
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Because it is senior year I have begun to see things as potential absences. The things I love will become the things I'll miss.
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Someday your prince will come, I assure him. And the first thing I'm going to say to him is, 'What took you so long?
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Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.
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I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart.
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I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale-- why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster.
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We just want to walk. Our legs need to move to keep our minds from collapsing.
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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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This is what a memorial is: standing still, staring at something that isn’t ther
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