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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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How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.
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The way you're singing in your sleep The way you look before you leap The strange illusions that you keep You don't know But I'm noticing The way your touch turns into arcs The way you slide into the dark The beating of my open heart You don't know But I'm noticing
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I want to talk to you and be random with you and be ridiculous with you.
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Sorry to be so cynical, but this is New York
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I want to know why this is such a part of me. I want to know why this thing that happened to other people has happened so much to me. I keep looking for the lesson.
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I don't get this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired.
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That lasting things do, in fact, last.
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There's no way to release yourself from a memory. It ends when it wants to end, whether it's in a flash or long after you've begged it to stop.
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Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.
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I suspected that what happens in hotel rooms rarely lasts outside of them. I suspected that when something was a beginning and an ending at the same time, that meant it could only exist in the present.
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I say good-bye to the part of myself that misses him so much.
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But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.
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I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. It can't even get itself out of the bottle.
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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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Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?
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You are so close, and I can’t reach you.
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It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.
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They don’t have silences together they have noise. Mostly his.
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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 don’t want to know anything, and I want to know it all
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