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You are so close, and I can’t reach 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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If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which decisions you're actually going to make, and then you have to let the rest of them go.
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They never played games with each other, they never had tow worry where they stood, because if either of them had a moment of wavering, the other would say I love you and would mean it and all doubts were forgiven because in this one case it was found that love conquers all.
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Moments into minutes. Minutes into hours. Hours into days. Days into years. Years into possibility. This will linger.
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We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home
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I'll see you later, he says, and as he does, he runs his finger briefly over my wrist. It passes over me like air, and makes me shiver like a kiss.
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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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You never let things go unanswered for too long. Emails. Phone calls. Questions. As if you know the waiting is the hardest part for me.
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Little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance.
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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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It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding.
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There are few things harder than being born into the wrong body.
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Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.
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When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart.
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And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.
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She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.
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i have never had anybody talk to me like this. this is not a flirty sixth-grade phone call or bantering with friends or words passed in a note. i feel that if my soul could talk it would talk like this.
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The words that matter always stay.
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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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...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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Someday your prince will come, I assure him. And the first thing I'm going to say to him is, 'What took you so long?
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