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We all contain mysteries, especially when seen from the inside.

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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Inside
Seen
Mysteries
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Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?
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We love and we feel and we try and we hope.
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Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.
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But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion.
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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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...but the truth is that I don't feel like I can carry anyone but myself right now. The streets are empty. I am empty. Or, no--I am full of pain. It's my life that's empty.
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When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart.
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and when he catches me off guard and says 'i love you' i catch him off guard and say 'i need your help.
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You like him because he's a lost boy. Believe me, I've seen it happen before. But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost themselves. Without fail.
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We always loved to say 'If I'd had a Monday-morning class, I never would have met you'. Or 'If you'd been reading something else, none of this would have happened'. We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.
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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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I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else.
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To get something you must give something away. To hold something you must give something away. To love something you must give something away.
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I want my own books to have their own shelves, you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together.
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The words that matter always stay.
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Breathing, n You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older, it went away. You could run for miles and it was fine. Sometimes I worry that this is happening to me in reverse. The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.
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I never know what you really want, if I can give it to you, or if I’m already too late.
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And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.
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