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willyoupleasebequiet: are you ready? bluejeanbaby: for what? willyoupleasebequiet: the future willyoupleasebequiet: because i think it just started

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
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Novelist
Writer
Short Hills
New Jersey
Thinking
Started
Ready
Future
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There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself.
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Life goes on is a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on.
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It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date. It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit. It just has to be.
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This is what a memorial is: standing still, staring at something that isn’t ther
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I think they have compatible silences.
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Why do we feel the need to disconnect in order to connect?
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So what do you have to confess now? I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that is the truth. I'm confessing that I don't know if I'm ready for this. What is 'this'? Being open. Being hurt. Liking. Not being liked. Seeing the flicker on. Seeing the flicker off. Leaping. Falling. Crashing.
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To love--to fall--is not a question. To touch--to kiss--to speak--those are questions.
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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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fraught, adj. Does every “I love you” deserve an “I love you too”? Does every kiss deserve a kiss back? Does every night deserve to be spent on a lover? If the answer to any of these is “No,” what do we do?
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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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A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.
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I’ve found that people tend to trust other people who dress like them.
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Feeling someone else's anger is bad being left alone is worse.
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I would always wait to take you home.
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I don’t want you to think I got through this undamaged, okay? But I’m learning to live with it. Because otherwise, the damage is all you are.
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Our lives change. Our feelings for each other change. Our bearings change. The song changes. The air changes. The temperature of the shower changes. Accept this. We must accept this.
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It won't be a normal life-I know that. But it will be a life. A life together.
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There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.
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...but the truth is that I don't feel like I can carry anyone but myself right now. The streets are empty. I am empty. Or, no--I am full of pain. It's my life that's empty.
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