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I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.
David Levithan
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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
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There are many things that can keep you in a relationship, I say. Fear of being alone. Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life. A decision to settle for something that's okay, because you don't know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better, even if you know he won't change.
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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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I find my greatest strengths in wanting ti be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave.
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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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This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.
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I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.
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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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It is its own form of conversation -- you can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you can also know them from the way they sing along, whether they like the windows up or down, if they live by the map or by the world, if they feel the pull of the ocean.
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Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices.
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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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Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.
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I'm always standing on the edge of something bad.
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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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Tell me a way you think this can work. We'll find a way, I tell her. That's not an answer. It's a hope. Hope's gotten us this far. Not answers.
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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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You are happy even if you are afraid to admit it.
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Love me less, but love me for a long time
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I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly
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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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You will always be my always.
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