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Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.

David Levithan

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
Author
Novelist
Writer
Short Hills
New Jersey
Things
Enlightenment
Scary
Dark
Better
Look
Looks
Sometimes

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Maybe there's a way to keep us in this moment. Not the sad part. But the coming together part.
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Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person hasn't suffered like everyone else, doesn't mean they don't hope to still be a good human being in an awful world.
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I find my greatest strengths in wanting ti be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave.
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Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.
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If you stare at the center of the universe, there is coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.
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Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.
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Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.
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Sharing truth is not the kind of gift that comes in wrapping paper - ripped open once and, there, you're done. No, this is a gift that must be unfolded.
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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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There is no reason that we should ever be ashamed of our bodies or ashamed of our love.
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When the shock wears off, you always hope there's understanding underneath.
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Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah
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I couldn't remember ordinary moments, only the ones that had made an impression. Ordinary moments were the ones that fell away first.
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I want to take back the secrets I told you so I can decide now whether to tell them to you again. I want to take back the piece of me that lies in you, to see if I truly miss it. I want to take back at least half the “I love you”s, because it feels safer that way.
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What i want is for what i want to actually matter.
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Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.
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Our moments are music, and sometimes – just sometimes – we can catch them and put them into some lasting form. If we didn’t have music, I don’t think we could ever be truly happy, and if we didn’t have special moments, we would never find music.
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It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together.
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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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