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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.

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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I have already spent roughly five thousand hours asleep next to you. This has to mean something.
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We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time.
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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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There is certainty in a ring. The non-ending, the non-beginning. The ongoing. The way it holds on to you not because it's fastened or stretched or adhered. It holds on because it fits.
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You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree you could be the sun that never leaves the sky this might be the happy ending without the ending this might be a reason to try
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Things rarely get fixed the way they need to be.
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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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In my experience, desire is desire, love is love.
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I've worn black today, because I've heard so often that it's supposed to be slimming. But instead I am this sphere of darkness submarining through the halls.
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I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.
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People are always separable.
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If you stare at the center of the universe, there is coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.
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I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale-- why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster.
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I notice you, I want to say. Even when no one else does, I do. I will.
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I text tiny a minute later. MADE NEW GAY FRIEND. And he texts back PROGRESS!!!
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When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.
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Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.
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Feeling someone else's anger is bad being left alone is worse.
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When someone breaks up with you, their beauty-- which you took such satisfaction in-- suddenly becomes unfair.
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