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The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is what separates a full portrait from a stereotype.

David Levithan

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
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Short Hills
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Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical because we create them.
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Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?
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I think of friendship in terms of love.
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Maybe that's what history is, you go from one I can't believe it the next. And sometimes the I can't believe its are good, and sometimes they're bad. But the sum total of positive ones always outweighs the negative ones.
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It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date. It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit. It just has to be.
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Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and want to be every word you say.
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i have never had anybody talk to me like this. this is not a flirty sixth-grade phone call or bantering with friends or words passed in a note. i feel that if my soul could talk it would talk like this.
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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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This is the trap of having something to live for: Everything else seems lifeless.
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..I've been trying to argue myself into thinking these things don't matter, A. Really,I have. But I've lost the argument. And I can't keep having it, when I know what the real answer is.
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me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly.” -Will Grayson (pg. 66)
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How amazing it is that friendships can become so full that you can't imagine what your life was like before them.
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The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.
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You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.
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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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I'm always standing on the edge of something bad.
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So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.
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I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.
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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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