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It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
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Short Hills
New Jersey
Complicated
Simple
True
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I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean them as much as the other ones.
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me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth.
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You are happy even if you are afraid to admit it.
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For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.
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It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason. And maybe I've gotten it backward, maybe it's just because I need a reason that I find myself falling in love with her. But I don't think that's it. I think I would have continued along, oblivious, if I hadn't happened to meet her.
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There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one.
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What a strange phrase — –not seeing other people. As if it’s been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it.
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But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion.
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simon: that's disgusting! me: what's disgusting? simon: you know. you put your thing in the place where he, um, defecates.
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Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.
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When the shock wears off, you always hope there's understanding underneath.
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Little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance.
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We love and we feel and we try and we hope.
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me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly.” -Will Grayson (pg. 66)
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I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.
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tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. i live in a big goddamned weltzschermz ocean, you know? and so do you.
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I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds.
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People are always separable.
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He’ll have to prove it to you. Every day, he’ll have to prove he’s worthy of you. And if he doesn’t, that’s it. But I think he will.
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Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.
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