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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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Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and want to be every word you say.
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This is my life, I think. I am an accumulation of objects.
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I have no idea how he knows when I need him. We can go weeks without speaking, and then, when my blue moods threaten to turn black, he will show up and tell me my moods are azure indigo cerulean cobalt periwinkle and suddenly the blue will not seem so dark, more like the color of a noon-bright sky. He brings the sun.
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I have learned how to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present, because that is where I am destined to live.
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I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.
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I can flirt with the best of them, but only when it doesn't matter.
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If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which decisions you're actually going to make, and then you have to let the rest of them go.
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I wake up feverish, sore, uncomfortable. Is it sickness or is it heartbreak? I can't tell. The thermometer says I'm normal, but I'm clearly not.
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I find my greatest strength in wanting to be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave. I don't know if I've ever realized it before,[...] I think we both realize it now. If there's no feeling of fear, then there's no need for courage.
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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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But I want to feel like life matters. I had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.
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he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with.
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This is what my voice sounds like I don't need to be talking to someone else To hear it
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There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings.
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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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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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Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.
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For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.
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I cannot think of a single word to describe what we feel. I think we all feel it, to varying degrees. Perhaps in some other language there is a word for 'the world is terribly wrong.' That feeling of stun and unbelief and abandonment and shock and horror and distress.
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So what do you have to confess now? I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that is the truth. I'm confessing that I don't know if I'm ready for this. What is 'this'? Being open. Being hurt. Liking. Not being liked. Seeing the flicker on. Seeing the flicker off. Leaping. Falling. Crashing.
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