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David Levithan
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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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It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it's lonely, because you feel you can't talk about it. You feel it's something between you and the body. You feel it's a battle you will never win . . . and yet you fight it day after day, and it wears you down. Even if you try to ignore it, the energy it takes to ignore it will exhaust you.
David Levithan
Most people, I've noticed, are instinctively harsh to strangers. They expect every approach to be an attack, every question to be an interruption.
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I have always been aware of how I break. I know what kind of situations will break me. I know what kind of people will do it. I know how much it will hurt.
David Levithan
I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart.
David Levithan
Please may this not be a game. Please may this not be a game. Because if it’s a game, I know I’m going to lose.
David Levithan
Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once.
David Levithan
I say good-bye to the part of myself that misses him so much.
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He’ll have to prove it to you. Every day, he’ll have to prove he’s worthy of you. And if he doesn’t, that’s it. But I think he will.
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luckily, tiny texts me every five minutes or so. i don't know how he does it without getting caught in class. maybe he hides the phone in the folds of his stomach or something.
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Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.
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Yesterday is another world. I want to go back there.
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Every time you love someone, you put not just your faith in them, but your faith in everything to the test.
David Levithan
When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart.
David Levithan
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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me: just don't ask about his forty-three ex-boyfriends, okay? or ask him about why he's carrying around an axe. mom:... me: i'm kidding about the axe part.
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It won't be a normal life-I know that. But it will be a life. A life together.
David Levithan
You know what’s a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in order to get to beauty, and even then, when you get there, you still have to wake her up. — Tiny Cooper
David Levithan
being with someone for over a year can mean that you love them … but it can also mean you’re trapped.
David Levithan
We just want to walk. Our legs need to move to keep our minds from collapsing.
David Levithan
I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.
David Levithan