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I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.

David Levithan

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
Author
Novelist
Writer
Short Hills
New Jersey
Stories
Become
Fictions
Expectations
Especially
Fiction
Dangerous
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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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I think that if you were somehow able to measure the weight of human kindness, it would have weighed more on 9/11 than it ever had. On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring. I have to believe that.
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But we comforted ourselves with what we really meant to say, which was: I don't normally feel this good about what I'm doing. Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.
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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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That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent parts.
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Life goes on is a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on.
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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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I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real.
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The boy I just kissed is talking to my father. The boy I want to kiss again is waiting for my mother to serve pancakes. I must fight the urge to freak.
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I feel the universe is telling me something. And it doesn't even matter if it's true or not. What matters is that I feel it, and believe it.
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I can't pretend to know what love is. It just is.
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It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present.
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That lasting things do, in fact, last.
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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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I text tiny a minute later. MADE NEW GAY FRIEND. And he texts back PROGRESS!!!
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Maybe, it's not the distance that's the problem, but how you handle it.
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why won't they leave me alone? don't they realize I have a tinder heart and a paper body and that any spark will turn me straight to ash?
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It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason.
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If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore.
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