David Levithan - Two Boys Kissing (2013)

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Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.

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What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.

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You can give words, but you can't take them. And when words are given, that is when they are shared. We remember what that was like. Words so real they were almost tangible. There are conversations you remember, for certain. But more than that, there is the sensation of conversation. You will remember that, even when the precise words begin to blur.

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Laughter rarely lasts longer than a few seconds, it's true. But how enjoyable those few seconds are.

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The world is quieter now. It is never quiet, but it can get quieter. What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread. Nighttime is not that. Nighttime still rustles, still creaks and whispers and trembles in its throat. It is not darkness we fear, but our own helplessness within it. How merciful to have been granted the other senses.

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It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than in service to ourselves.

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Magic naturally fades over distance. But proximity - well, when it works, proximity amplifies magic.

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There are all these moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive.

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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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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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There is no reason that we should ever be ashamed of our bodies or ashamed of our love.

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You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together. And then everything falls apart anyway.

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It is very hard to stay alive just for your own sake. It is very hard to stare into day after day without another familiar face staring back. It turns your heart into a purposeless muscle.

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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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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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No matter how happy we are, no matter how much we want our night to stretch out infinitely, sleep is inevitable.

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Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical because we create them.

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Pink is female - but why? Are girls any more pink than boys? Are boys any more blue than girls? It's something that has been sold to us, mostly so other things can be sold to us.

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When distractions are manifold, it's best to remember what you are supposed to be doing.

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It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being. It is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings. It's a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully.

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Sharing truth is not the kind of gift that comes in wrapping paper - ripped open once and, there, you're done. No, this is a gift that must be unfolded.

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He hopes that maybe it'll make people a little less scared of two boys kissing than they were before, and a little more welcoming to the idea that all people are, in fact, born equal, no matter who they kiss or screw, no matter what dreams they have or love they give.

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Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You can't exist on a diet of humor alone, but you can't exist on a diet without it, either.

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Pride is allowed to have an element of worry, especially when you are a mother.

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