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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
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Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.
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We love and we feel and we try and we hope.
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This is the trap of having something to live for: Everything else seems lifeless.
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I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds.
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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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I can flirt with the best of them, but only when it doesn't matter.
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Every relationship has a hard part at the beginning. This is our hard part. It's not like a puzzle piece where there's an instant fit. With relationships, you have to shape the pieces on each end before they go perfectly together.
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I have no idea how he knows when I need him. We can go weeks without speaking, and then, when my blue moods threaten to turn black, he will show up and tell me my moods are azure indigo cerulean cobalt periwinkle and suddenly the blue will not seem so dark, more like the color of a noon-bright sky. He brings the sun.
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I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.
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When is a night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply realize that you have to? When the club closes or when you everyone leaves? It's over when you decide it's over, she says. When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky.
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It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding.
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A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.
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You can't know what it is like for us now--you will always be one step behind. Be thankful for that. You can't know what it was like for us then--you will always be one step ahead. Be thankful for that, too.
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This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.
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Feeling someone else's anger is bad being left alone is worse.
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To get something you must give something away. To hold something you must give something away. To love something you must give something away.
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Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.
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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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