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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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seven wonders of the world and I have to ask for an eighth fill a bottle with some prayers and spend them on hope create an easy route just so I can complicate send my heart down that slippery slope
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Falling in love with someone doesn’t mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.
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Belonging. Togetherness. These words are as complicated and confusing as the word love. It’s probably all the same thing. Or it would be if we let it be. I can only guess from observation.
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In my experience, desire is desire, love is love.
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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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Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?
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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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And still, for all the jealously, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that we're together. That someone like me could find someone like you --- it renders me wordless. Because surely words would conspire against such luck, would protest the unlikelihood of such a turn of events.
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Let’s make plans,” I ventured. And Sofia smiled and said, “No, let’s leave it to chance.
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Her vulnerability is open, but she’s safe within it.
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There are times when I worry that I've already lost myself. That is, that my self is so inseparable from being with you that if we were to separate, I would no longer be. I save this thought for when I feel the darkest discontent. I never meant to depend so much on someone else.
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Every day I am someone else. I am myself-I know I am myself-but I am also someone else. It has always been like this.
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It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.
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To get something you must give something away. To hold something you must give something away. To love something you must give something away.
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I think of friendship in terms of love.
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When is a night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply realize that you have to? When the club closes or when you everyone leaves? It's over when you decide it's over, she says. When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky.
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We always loved to say 'If I'd had a Monday-morning class, I never would have met you'. Or 'If you'd been reading something else, none of this would have happened'. We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.
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We just want to walk. Our legs need to move to keep our minds from collapsing.
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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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You can't deny that there's something between us. No. There is. When I saw you today--I didn't know I'd been waiting for you until you were there. And then all of that waiting rushed through me in a second. That's something... but I don't know if it's certainty.
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