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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
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Short Hills
New Jersey
Hipster
Matters
Gonna
Hurt
Matter

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People are always separable.
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But we comforted ourselves with what we really meant to say, which was: I don't normally feel this good about what I'm doing. Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.
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I guess I don't believe these things can ever be easy, although I also don't see why they have to be hard.
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I find my greatest strength in wanting to be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave. I don't know if I've ever realized it before,[...] I think we both realize it now. If there's no feeling of fear, then there's no need for courage.
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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
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I think of friendship in terms of love.
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next to it was a dvd called 'as i get laid dying,' which had a hospital scene on the front. it was like grey's anatomy, only with less grey and more anatomy.
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There are few things harder than being born into the wrong body.
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If you want to be loved, be a lovable. It's a good place to start.
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It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
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...he hopes that maybe it'll make people a little less scared of two boys kissing than they were before, and a little more welcoming to the idea that all people are, in fact, born equal, no matter who they kiss or screw, no matter what dreams they have or love they give.
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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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Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.
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I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else.
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being with someone for over a year can mean that you love them … but it can also mean you’re trapped.
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Let me hold on to this the way it was, before I knew anything else.
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We found out a long time ago that we weren’t meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of me still fell in hope with him.
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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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Love is the higher law.
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Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person hasn't suffered like everyone else, doesn't mean they don't hope to still be a good human being in an awful world.
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