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I've worn black today, because I've heard so often that it's supposed to be slimming. But instead I am this sphere of darkness submarining through the halls.
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I know the odds are all against me and I know you might not feel this way too but I know I would rather die trying to know if I could mean something to you
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You wanna-I dunno-get coffee or something sometime?" Justin smiled "Not coffee. But yes." "Not Coffee it is, then." "Yes, Not Coffee.
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To get something you must give something away. To hold something you must give something away. To love something you must give something away.
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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 don't want to throw everything away for something uncertain.
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The assumption of the word reunion is that, once you're together again, you are united. Two as one. Pulling close to someone is only a temporary symbol. It's the way you breathe with each other that's the telltale sign.
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You don't realize - the great thing about change is how quickly we get used to it. So I'm not complaining. the more things change, the more they don't stay the same. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. They might not change everywhere all at once - but there are moments when the impossible becomes the inevitable, and the rest is just a matter of time.
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The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.
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I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten. It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF.
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There are boys so enraptured by love that they can't get their hearts to slow down enough to get some rest, and other boys so damaged by love that they can't stop picking at their pain.
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I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale— why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster.
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With some break-ups, all you can think about afterwards is how badly it ended and how much the other person hurt you. With others, you become sentimental for the good times and lose track of what went wrong.
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Stanchion, n. I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one either. Why does it feel like it's always one or the other? When we embrace, one of us is always holding the other a little tighter.
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I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else.
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It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present.
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I try to be a careful person. Most of the time my carelessness is completely unintentional.
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Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.
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He'll have to prove it to you. Every day, he'll have to prove he's worthy of you. And if he doesn't, that's it. But I think he will.
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Breathing, n You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older, it went away. You could run for miles and it was fine. Sometimes I worry that this is happening to me in reverse. The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.
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With some people, the minute you start talking, it feels like you've known them for years. It only means that you were supposed to meet sooner. You're feeling all the time you should have known each other, but didn't. That time still counts. You can definitely feel it.
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You never let things go unanswered for too long. Emails. Phone calls. Questions. As if you know the waiting is the hardest part for me.
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My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.
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Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?
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Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.
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Born:
September 7, 1972
(age 51)
Bio:
David Levithan is an American young adult fiction author and editor. His first book, Boy Meets Boy, was published by Knopf Books for Young Readers in 2003.
Known for:
Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010)
Every Day (2012)
Boy Meets Boy (2003)
Two Boys Kissing (2013)
The Lover's Dictionary (2010)
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