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If you let the world in, you open yourself up to the world. Even if the world doesn't know that you're there.
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It's almost heartening to think that the attachment you have can define your perception as much as any other influence.
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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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I guess I don't believe these things can ever be easy, although I also don't see why they have to be hard.
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I have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side.
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When I say, "Be my lover", I don't mean, "Let's have an affair." I don't mean "Sleep with me." I don't mean, "Be my secret." I want us to go back down to that root. I want you to be the one who loves me. I want to be the one who loves 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 with you.
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The boy I just kissed is talking to my father. The boy I want to kiss again is waiting for my mother to serve pancakes. I must fight the urge to freak.
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It doesn't feel like a date. It doesn't feel like friendship. It feels like something that fell off the tightrope but hasn't yet hit the net.
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Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant.
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I was starting to think I was making up memories, just to have answers. Our brain does that sometimes. Or at least mine does.
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I learn about the highs and lows of living with the same mother for your entire life, about how no one can make you angrier, but how you can't really love anyone more.
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School is school-she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next.
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Everyone in our school has afterschool activities. mine is going home.
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Me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly.
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For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.
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When we're alone together, I'm the destination. When I'm here in her life at school, I'm the disruption.
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Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.
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We gather the things we learned, and they don't nearly add up to fill the space of a life. You will miss the taste of Froot Loops. You will miss the sound of traffic. You will miss your back against his. You will miss him stealing the sheets. Do not ignore these things.
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It feels like I am wasting time. I mean, that's always the case. My life doesn't add up to anything.
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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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This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.
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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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Once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you're breathing it in. Even after smoke becomes air, there is the memory of smoke. I am seeing as if by the light of a match, a glimpse of my life and having it feel right.
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I can flirt with the best of them, but only when it doesn't matter.
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
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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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