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If you start the day reading the obituaries, you live your day a little differently.

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
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Short Hills
New Jersey
Differently
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Littles
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Obituaries
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fraught, adj. Does every “I love you” deserve an “I love you too”? Does every kiss deserve a kiss back? Does every night deserve to be spent on a lover? If the answer to any of these is “No,” what do we do?
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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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It's you. You deserve this. There is a reason this is happening to you.
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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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She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is.
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arrears, n. My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that. It was a mistake, you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.
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We always loved to say 'If I'd had a Monday-morning class, I never would have met you'. Or 'If you'd been reading something else, none of this would have happened'. We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.
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Maybe that's what history is, you go from one I can't believe it the next. And sometimes the I can't believe its are good, and sometimes they're bad. But the sum total of positive ones always outweighs the negative ones.
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i have never had anybody talk to me like this. this is not a flirty sixth-grade phone call or bantering with friends or words passed in a note. i feel that if my soul could talk it would talk like this.
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And I'm moved, it's so beautiful. Not what I wrote, but to have it given back like this. To have her remember the words and the tune. To hear it in her voice.
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I have already spent roughly five thousand hours asleep next to you. This has to mean something.
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If smart people are parodying it, that's a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it.
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That's what it felt like - that if I let a little of the hurt out, it would keep pouring out until I was a deflated balloon of a person, with a big monster of hurt in front of me.
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the world loves stupid labels. i wish we got to choose our own.
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I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.
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yearning n. and adj. At te core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect.
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What did it matter to me? Did I think that by making you rational about one thing, I could make you rational about everything? Maybe. Or maybe I just wanted to save you from your fears
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I had forgotten this about love: how the simple things- the turn away, the turn towards- could be so complicated, and how the complicated things- the stolen night, the right words- could be so simple.
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To love--to fall--is not a question. To touch--to kiss--to speak--those are questions.
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Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant.
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