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I still don’t know if this is a good quality or a bad one, to be able to be in the moment and then step out of it.

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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only adj. thats the dilemma isn't it? when you're single, there's the sadness and joy of only me. And when you're paired, there's the sadness and joy of only you.
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Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?
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There is the sudden. There is the eventual. And in between, there is the living.
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The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is what separates a full portrait from a stereotype.
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I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.
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breathtaking, adj. Those moments when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.
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She is my first and only love. Most people know that their first love will not be their only love. But for me, she is both.
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Little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance.
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We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep as soon as it's gone, it's gone. We should have said we'd keep in words, because they are all we can string between us--words on a telephone line, words appearing on a screen.
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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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It's almost heartening to think that the attachment you have can define your perception as much as any other influence.
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I am so used to hints and mixed messages, saying things that might mean what they sort of sound like they mean. Games and contests, roles and rituals, talking in twelve languages at once so the true words won't be so obvious. I am not used to a plainspoken, honest truth.
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How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.
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We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.
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motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.
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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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aloof, adj. It has always been my habit, ever since junior high school, to ask that question: “What are you thinking?” It is always an act of desperation, and I keep on asking, even though I know it will never work the way I want it to.
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