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Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

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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Kindness
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The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender. As I step out of bed and slip on an oversize shirt, everything around me feels like it's the temperature of happiness.
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It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date. It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit. It just has to be.
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Maybe there is hope in the fragments, that what is lost can always be filled in by someone who knows.
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She is my first and only love. Most people know that their first love will not be their only love. But for me, she is both.
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Love is the higher law.
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We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.
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Here, she said. This is for you. I didn't really get you anything, I sputtered. I mean, I didn't know that you were going to be here, and-- Don't worry. It's your embarrassment at not having the thought that counts.
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That lasting things do, in fact, last.
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I don’t want to know anything, and I want to know it all
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You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.
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The boy I loved didn't know I existed. Then again, he was obsessed with Camus, so he didn't know if any of us existed.
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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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I’ve found that people tend to trust other people who dress like them.
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And once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.
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With some break-ups, all you can think about afterwards is how badly it ended and how much the other person hurt you. With others, you become sentimental for the good times and lose track of what went wrong.
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You don't know, but I'm noticing.
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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.
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I can't pretend to know what love is. It just is.
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I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.
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