David Levithan - Every Day (2012)

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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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It feels like we've stepped outside of time. Even though there is no such place.

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I am made for running. Because when you run, you could be anyone. You hone yourself into a body, nothing more or less than a body. You respond as a body, to the body. If you are racing to win, you have no thoughts but the body's thoughts, no goals but the body's goals. You obliterate yourself in the name of speed. You negate yourself in order to make it past the finish line.

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Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving

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I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.

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The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope. Every time I see these feelings in someone else's face, it weighs me down.

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I had made it somewhere special, and I'd gotten there all on my own. Nobody had given it to me. Nobody had told me to do it. I'd climbed and climbed and climbed, and this was my reward. To watch over the world, and to be alone with myself. That, I found, was what I needed.

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I notice you, I want to say. Even when no one else does, I do. I will.

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I hope that George doesn't internalize her scare tactics. I want to argue with her, tell her that "sins of the flesh" is just a control mechanism — if you demonize a person's pleasure, then you can control his or her life. I can't say how many times this tool has been wielded against me, in a variety of forms. But I see no sin in a kiss. I only see sin in the condemnation.

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She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.

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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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Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.

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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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The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.

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I don't want to throw everything away for something uncertain.

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I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real.

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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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She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for.

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Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.

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I know from experience that beneath every peripheral girl is a central truth. She's hiding hers away, but at the same time she wants me to see it.

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I've found that people tend to trust other people who dress like them.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant.

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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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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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