David Levithan - Boy Meets Boy (2003)

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We found out a long time ago that we weren't meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of me still fell in hope with him.

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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 a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

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Ted is smart and good-looking, but he doesn't use it to good effect, like a rich person that never gives to charity.

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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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Do I really have to find a word for it? Can't it just be what it is?

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I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.

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Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.

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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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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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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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I can flirt with the best of them, but only when it doesn't matter.

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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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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 am so used to hints and mixed messages, saying things that might mean what they sort of sound like they mean. Games and contests, roles and rituals, talking in twelve languages at once so the true words won't be so obvious. I am not used to a plainspoken, honest truth.

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Self-esteem can be so exhausting. I want to cut my hair, change my clothes, erase the pimple from the near-tip of my nose, and strengthen my upper-arm definition, all in the next hour.

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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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In the next election, I'm voting for your mom to be the next God.

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We hold hands as we walk through town. If anybody notices, nobody cares. I know we all like to think of the heart as the center of the body but at this moment, every conscious part of me is in the hand that he holds. It is through that hand, that feeling, that I experience everything else.

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His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.

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The world loves stupid labels. i wish we got to choose our own.

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But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.

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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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We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.

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But I want to feel like life matters. I had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.

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Now, I don't believe in doing hugs halfway. I can't stand people who try to hug without touching. A hug should be a full embrace - as I wrap my arms around Tony, I am not just holding him, but also trying to lift off his troubles for a moment so that the only thing he can feel is my presence, my support.

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I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else.

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