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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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Niceness
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Kindness

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It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer.
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I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia.
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Every single answer starts with the phrase 'I don't know.' But most of the time she does know, if I give her the time and the space in which to answer.
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If goodness can't come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable.
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I'll see you later, he says, and as he does, he runs his finger briefly over my wrist. It passes over me like air, and makes me shiver like a kiss.
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The way you argued with me, you would have thought that we were debating the existence of God or whether or not we should move in together. These kinds of fights can never be won – even if you’re the victor, you’ve hurt the other person, and there has to be some loss associated with that.
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you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.
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Once the storm comes out, the landscape changes. What you had before is altered in some way. And you have a choice: build something new and better from what is left or abandon it.
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But if I didn’t want to be alone, then why didn’t I want to be with anyone else?
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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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It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry, but this role isn't right for me'. And you have to start writing your own life and doing your own thing.
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When it all come down to it, the thing that matters most in a relationship is principles [...] We have the same idea what’s right and what’s wrong, and that’s got us through any number of things. If you can have that with someone, then you’re most of the way toward love. Not just lover-love. Any kind of love.
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Feeling someone else's anger is bad being left alone is worse.
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the world loves stupid labels. i wish we got to choose our own.
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When it comes to true dance, it's not about how you look, it's all about the joy you feel.
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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.
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I couldn't remember ordinary moments, only the ones that had made an impression. Ordinary moments were the ones that fell away first.
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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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I had a sense then of how if we truly understood how many of the unimportant things we do will end up outliving us, we'd never be able to go on.
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I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.
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