David Levithan - Every Day (2012)

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I find faith in human perseverance, even as the universe throws challenge after challenge our way.

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

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

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Every day I am someone else. I am myself-I know I am myself-but I am also someone else. It has always been like this.

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Happiness is so rarely a part of my vocabulary, because for me it's so fleeting

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If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

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If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.

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After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simple are

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She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is.

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I've been trying to argue myself into thinking these things don't matter, A. Really, I have. But I've lost the argument. And I can't keep having it, when I know what the real answer is.

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Falling in love with someone doesn't mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.

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Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.

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You never get involved in the people's lives? The ones you're inhabiting?" I shake my head. "You try to leave the lives the way you found them." "Yeah." "But what about Justin? What made that so different?" "You," I say.

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There are few things harder than being born into the wrong body.

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There are many things that can keep you in a relationship," I say. "Fear of being alone. Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life. A decision to settle for something that's okay, because you don't know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better, even if you know he won't change.

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I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt.

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When first love ends, most people eventually know there will be more to come. They are not through with love. Love is not through with them. It will never be the same as the first, but it will be better in different ways.

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As sisters, they probably have closer to 99 percent in common, but they're not about to recognize that. They'd rather fight over what kind of pet they're going to get … It's an argument for its own sake.

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It's as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

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She is my first and only love. Most people know that their first love will not be their only love. But for me, she is both.

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And as we drift into sleep, I feel something I've never felt before. A closeness that isn't merely physical. A connection that defies the fact that we've only just met. A sensation that can only come from the most euphoric of feelings: belonging.

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If other people see you differently, you'll end up seeing them differently, too.

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I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.

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Even if you were green and had a beard and a male appendage between your legs. Even if your eyebrows were orange and you had a mole covering your entire cheek and a nose that poked me in the eye every time I kissed you. Even if you weighed seven hundred pounds and had hair the size of a Doberman under your arms. Even then, I would love you.

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Every single answer starts with the phrase 'I don't know.' But most of the time she does know, if I give her the time and the space in which to answer.

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You like him because he's a lost boy. Believe me, I've seen it happen before. But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost themselves. Without fail.

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I feel the universe is telling me something. And it doesn't even matter if it's true or not. What matters is that I feel it, and believe it.

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