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You are so close, and I can’t reach you.
David Levithan
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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
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I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.
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me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth.
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Why do we feel the need to disconnect in order to connect?
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The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is what separates a full portrait from a stereotype.
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There is certainty in a ring. The non-ending, the non-beginning. The ongoing. The way it holds on to you not because it's fastened or stretched or adhered. It holds on because it fits.
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Maybe tonight you're scared of falling, and maybe there's somebody here or somewhere else you're thinking about, worrying over, fretting over, trying to figure out if you want to fall, or how and when you're gonna land, and i gotta tell you, friends, to stop thinking about the landing, because it's all about falling.
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This is what my voice sounds like I don't need to be talking to someone else To hear it
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I had forgotten this about love: how the simple things- the turn away, the turn towards- could be so complicated, and how the complicated things- the stolen night, the right words- could be so simple.
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It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being. It is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings. It's a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully.
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Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.
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I'm a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell.
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It's only a game if there is an absence of meaning. And we've already gone too far for that.
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People read vampire novels and say, Oh I want to read another vampire novel. People read fantasy, and theyre like, Oh I love fantasy. I dont know that people are necessarily finishing Hunger Games and immediately wanting to read another dystopian tale.
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Sorry to be so cynical, but this is New York
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me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly.” -Will Grayson (pg. 66)
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The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.
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Two infinities: the one that stretches to the beginning but never touches-when you halve and halve and halve, infinitely-and then the one that spreads out into the endless, endless future, the endless, endless, distance.The set of infinities that is itself infinite.
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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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What did it matter to me? Did I think that by making you rational about one thing, I could make you rational about everything? Maybe. Or maybe I just wanted to save you from your fears
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You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree you could be the sun that never leaves the sky this might be the happy ending without the ending this might be a reason to try
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