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Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.

David Levithan

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
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Short Hills
New Jersey
Buoyed
Anchored
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Time

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When it all come down to it, the thing that matters most in a relationship is principles [...] We have the same idea what’s right and what’s wrong, and that’s got us through any number of things. If you can have that with someone, then you’re most of the way toward love. Not just lover-love. Any kind of love.
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being with someone for over a year can mean that you love them … but it can also mean you’re trapped.
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Fate has a strange way of making plans.
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My face seems too square and my eyes too big, like I'm perpetually surprised, but there's nothing wrong with me that I can fix.
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I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life. You are a second away from saying it. You have no idea how much I love you.
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Please may this not be a game. Please may this not be a game. Because if it’s a game, I know I’m going to lose.
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I have already spent roughly five thousand hours asleep next to you. This has to mean something.
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I guess I don't believe these things can ever be easy, although I also don't see why they have to be hard.
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and when he catches me off guard and says 'i love you' i catch him off guard and say 'i need your help.
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I find I very rarely live up to my words. And since you know me primarily through my words, there are oh so many ways I can disappoint.
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So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.
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yearning n. and adj. At te core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect.
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I cannot think of a single word to describe what we feel. I think we all feel it, to varying degrees. Perhaps in some other language there is a word for 'the world is terribly wrong.' That feeling of stun and unbelief and abandonment and shock and horror and distress.
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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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It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present.
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And just like that, the universe goes wrong. Just like that, all the enormity seems to shrink into a ball and float away from my reach. I feel it, and she doesn't. Or I feel it, and she won't.
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