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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
Enlightenment
Scary
Dark
Better
Look
Looks
Sometimes
Things

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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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Most people, I've noticed, are instinctively harsh to strangers. They expect every approach to be an attack, every question to be an interruption.
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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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It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
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I still don’t know if this is a good quality or a bad one, to be able to be in the moment and then step out of it.
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I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia.
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I had no idea what I wanted, only that I wanted something, which is the worst kind of wanting.
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