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Sorry to be so cynical, but this is New York

David Levithan

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
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Short Hills
New Jersey
Cynical
Sorry
York

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I am so used to hints and mixed messages, saying things that might mean what they sort of sound like they mean. Games and contests, roles and rituals, talking in twelve languages at once so the true words won't be so obvious. I am not used to a plainspoken, honest truth.
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I couldn't remember ordinary moments, only the ones that had made an impression. Ordinary moments were the ones that fell away first.
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Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.
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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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I want to take back the secrets I told you so I can decide now whether to tell them to you again. I want to take back the piece of me that lies in you, to see if I truly miss it. I want to take back at least half the “I love you”s, because it feels safer that way.
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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)
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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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To get something you must give something away. To hold something you must give something away. To love something you must give something away.
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