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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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Waiting

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You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.
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The minute I knew I was in love was the minute when there was no question about it.
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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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She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.
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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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Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.
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I don’t like it when you use my shampoo, because then your hair smells like me, not you.
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I want to talk to you and be random with you and be ridiculous with you.
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People read vampire novels and say, Oh I want to read another vampire novel. People read fantasy, and theyre like, Oh I love fantasy. I dont know that people are necessarily finishing Hunger Games and immediately wanting to read another dystopian tale.
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I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own.
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This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.
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His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.
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It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being. It is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings. It's a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully.
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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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Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.
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Falling in love with someone doesn’t mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.
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I think they have compatible silences.
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Breathing, n You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older, it went away. You could run for miles and it was fine. Sometimes I worry that this is happening to me in reverse. The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.
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Feeling someone else's anger is bad being left alone is worse.
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