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Love is the higher law.

David Levithan

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
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Short Hills
New Jersey
Higher
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Love

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motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.
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I want you to spend the night, you said. And it was definitely your phrasing that ensured it. If you had said, Let's have sex, or Let's go to my place, or even I really want you, I'm not sure we would have gone quite as far as we did. But I loved the notion that the night was mine to spend, and I immediately decided to spend it wit
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the world loves stupid labels. i wish we got to choose our own.
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I have already spent roughly five thousand hours asleep next to you. This has to mean something.
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aloof, adj. It has always been my habit, ever since junior high school, to ask that question: “What are you thinking?” It is always an act of desperation, and I keep on asking, even though I know it will never work the way I want it to.
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As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we’re really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.
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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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Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant.
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Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse.
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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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If you stare at the center of the universe, there is coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.
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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 say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.
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It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
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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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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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Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.
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