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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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The minute I knew I was in love was the minute when there was no question about it.
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I want to know why this is such a part of me. I want to know why this thing that happened to other people has happened so much to me. I keep looking for the lesson.
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Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.
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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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It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason. And maybe I've gotten it backward, maybe it's just because I need a reason that I find myself falling in love with her. But I don't think that's it. I think I would have continued along, oblivious, if I hadn't happened to meet her.
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Moments into minutes. Minutes into hours. Hours into days. Days into years. Years into possibility. This will linger.
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My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.
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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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There are times when I worry that I've already lost myself. That is, that my self is so inseparable from being with you that if we were to separate, I would no longer be. I save this thought for when I feel the darkest discontent. I never meant to depend so much on someone else.
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lying awake beside you, these thoughts run through my head.
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I don’t like it when you use my shampoo, because then your hair smells like me, not you.
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I'm a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell.
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I have always been aware of how I break. I know what kind of situations will break me. I know what kind of people will do it. I know how much it will hurt.
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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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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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You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.
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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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I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.
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She is my first and only love. Most people know that their first love will not be their only love. But for me, she is both.
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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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