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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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Someday your prince will come, I assure him. And the first thing I'm going to say to him is, 'What took you so long?
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Eventually she fell asleep, but I kept the phone against my ear, lulled by her breathing, and her breathing again in the background. And yes, it felt like home. Like everything belonged exactly where it was.
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Even if you were green and had a beard and a male appendage between your legs. Even if your eyebrows were orange and you had a mole covering your entire cheek and a nose that poked me in the eye every time I kissed you. Even if you weighed seven hundred pounds and had hair the size of a Doberman under your arms. Even then, I would love you.
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You are so close, and I can’t reach you.
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I find my greatest strength in wanting to be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave. I don't know if I've ever realized it before,[...] I think we both realize it now. If there's no feeling of fear, then there's no need for courage.
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So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.
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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 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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The world, right now, is only us.
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There is no word for our kind of friendship. Two people who don't see each other a lot, but can make each other effortlessly happy
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you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.
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It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together.
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But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.
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I know from experience that beneath every peripheral girl is a central truth. She’s hiding hers away, but at the same time she wants me to see it.
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He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything - he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I guess that's the danger with firsts - you lose all sense of proportion.
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Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.
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Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.
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She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is.
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There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself.
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Fate has a strange way of making plans.
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