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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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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
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Short Hills
New Jersey
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love is tied to truth. I think of them as unhappily conjoined twins.
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But the thing about a cry for help is that someone else needs to be around to hear it.
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Let me hold on to this the way it was, before I knew anything else.
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It's you. You deserve this. There is a reason this is happening to you.
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Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical because we create them.
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I'm always standing on the edge of something bad.
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If you start the day reading the obituaries, you live your day a little differently.
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All this hoping for something- or someone- that's maybe hopeless. I'm having a hard time processing what I am supposed to believe, or if I'm even supposed to. There is too much information, and I don't like a lot of it.
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Things rarely get fixed the way they need to be.
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I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly
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They don’t have silences together they have noise. Mostly his.
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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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There is no such thing as equality for some. Equality must be for all. That is what freedom is. That is what liberty is. No human being is born more or less important than any other. How can we allow ourselves to forget that? What simpler truth is there?
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Teens wanted things that were real, that they connected with, it doesn't have to reflect reality directly. They love 'The Hunger Games' not because it's real in that it happens, but the emotions there are real, and it's very relatable.
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I want to take back the secrets I told you so I can decide now whether to tell them to you again. I want to take back the piece of me that lies in you, to see if I truly miss it. I want to take back at least half the “I love you”s, because it feels safer that way.
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I suspected that what happens in hotel rooms rarely lasts outside of them. I suspected that when something was a beginning and an ending at the same time, that meant it could only exist in the present.
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My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.
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You are happy even if you are afraid to admit it.
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luckily, tiny texts me every five minutes or so. i don't know how he does it without getting caught in class. maybe he hides the phone in the folds of his stomach or something.
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