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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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Meaningful
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I want to kiss her without counting the seconds. I want to hold her so long that I get to know her skin. I want, I want, I want.
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Things rarely get fixed the way they need to be.
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this blue shirt i have is practically the same color as my jeans, and looking all-blue is something only cookie monster can pull off.
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How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence of yourself that says it better than you ever could?
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Every day I am someone else. I am myself-I know I am myself-but I am also someone else. It has always been like this.
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It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than in service to ourselves.
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They never played games with each other, they never had tow worry where they stood, because if either of them had a moment of wavering, the other would say I love you and would mean it and all doubts were forgiven because in this one case it was found that love conquers all.
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Let me hold on to this the way it was, before I knew anything else.
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Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.
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I asked you what you wanted and you said you didn't want anything. And I told you I wasn't planning on giving you anything I was planning on giving you something.
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It's you. You deserve this. There is a reason this is happening to you.
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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 say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.
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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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But I had a feeling I wasn't supposed to find her that way. She was not a needle. This was not a haystack. We were people, and people had ways of finding each other.
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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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He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears.
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We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.
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When the shock wears off, you always hope there's understanding underneath.
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If other people see you differently, you’ll end up seeing them differently, too.
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