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We are so used to releasing words. We don't know what to do with them if they stay.

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
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Short Hills
New Jersey
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My face seems too square and my eyes too big, like I'm perpetually surprised, but there's nothing wrong with me that I can fix.
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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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having someone think of me that way was like discovering a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life.
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This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.
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I can't pretend to know what love is. It just is.
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I'm always standing on the edge of something bad.
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Pride is allowed to have an element of worry, especially when you are a mother.
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There is no reason that we should ever be ashamed of our bodies or ashamed of our love.
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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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Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.
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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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Indelible, adj. That first night, you took your finger and pointed to the top of my head, then traced a line between my eyes, down my nose, over my lips, my chin, my neck, to the center of my chest. It was so surprising. I knew I would never mimic it. That one gesture would be yours forever.
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I say good-bye to the part of myself that misses him so much.
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It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer.
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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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Honestly, I'm just trying to live day to day
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She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is.
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