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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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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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That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent parts.
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Maybe, it's not the distance that's the problem, but how you handle it.
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The words that matter always stay.
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Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and want to be every word you say.
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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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A sound waiting to be a word.
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Eventually she fell asleep, but I kept the phone against my ear, lulled by her breathing, and her breathing again in the background. And yes, it felt like home. Like everything belonged exactly where it was.
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I want my own books to have their own shelves, you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together.
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I say good-bye to the part of myself that misses him so much.
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I wake up feverish, sore, uncomfortable. Is it sickness or is it heartbreak? I can't tell. The thermometer says I'm normal, but I'm clearly not.
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Here, she said. This is for you. I didn't really get you anything, I sputtered. I mean, I didn't know that you were going to be here, and-- Don't worry. It's your embarrassment at not having the thought that counts.
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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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this blue shirt i have is practically the same color as my jeans, and looking all-blue is something only cookie monster can pull off.
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It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer.
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There is no word for our kind of friendship. Two people who don't see each other a lot, but can make each other effortlessly happy
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When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.
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You have to trust the words. They do not create anything more than themselves.
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Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices.
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Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough.
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