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It’s a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn’t really care what you have to say.


David Levithan

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But.
It is also much harder to tell the truth ...
DAVID LEVITHAN I didn’t mean to fall in love with you. But it happened. And I can’t erase it. I can’t ignore ...
DAVID LEVITHAN tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression...
DAVID LEVITHAN Breathing, n
You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older...
DAVID LEVITHAN I will be the one to leave you.
DAVID LEVITHAN I'll go get the horse and buggy," you'll say. And I'll say, "But I thought we were taking the hoverc...
DAVID LEVITHAN It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.
DAVID LEVITHAN contiguous, adj.

I felt silly for even mentioning it, but once I did, I kne...
DAVID LEVITHAN You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.
DAVID LEVITHAN I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.
DAVID LEVITHAN I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.
DAVID LEVITHAN You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here's a hint - ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you,...
DAVID LEVITHAN There's no such thing as a perfect person, so it makes no sense to write a perfect person. I don...
DAVID LEVITHAN I have no idea how he knows when I need him. We can go weeks without speaking, and then, when my blu...
DAVID LEVITHAN The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations—all of them rearran...
DAVID LEVITHAN I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend.
DAVID LEVITHAN So what else can I tell you?" I asked. "I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me."
She triangled...
DAVID LEVITHAN What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people...
DAVID LEVITHAN exacerbate, v.

I believe your exact words were: "You're getting too emotion...
DAVID LEVITHAN If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accompl...
DAVID LEVITHAN yearning, n. and adj.

At the core of this desire is the belief that ...
DAVID LEVITHAN Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?
DAVID LEVITHAN And still, for all the jealously, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that ...
DAVID LEVITHAN ubiquitous, adj.

When it’s going well, the fact of it is everywhere. It�...
DAVID LEVITHAN flux, n.

The natural state. Our moods change. Our lives change. Our feeling...
DAVID LEVITHAN breathtaking, adj.

Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour be...
DAVID LEVITHAN I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. ...
DAVID LEVITHAN libidinous, adj.

I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor....
DAVID LEVITHAN love, n.

I'm not even going to try.
DAVID LEVITHAN lover, n.

Oh, how I hated this word. So pretentious, like it was always bei...
DAVID LEVITHAN Is that all we need? Can the way we say each other's names encompass all our history, all our love, ...
DAVID LEVITHAN If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which ...
DAVID LEVITHAN There was something about our silence that made me comfortable. He wasn't talking to me, but I didn'...
DAVID LEVITHAN You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all...
DAVID LEVITHAN There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about...
DAVID LEVITHAN Please may this not be a game. Please may this not be a game. Because if it’s a game, I know I’m...
DAVID LEVITHAN Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.
DAVID LEVITHAN How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-s...
DAVID LEVITHAN Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold ...
DAVID LEVITHAN It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just varia...
DAVID LEVITHAN I've never understood why looking hot had to be equated with sex and conquest. Whatever happened to ...
DAVID LEVITHAN Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person ha...
DAVID LEVITHAN Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you e...
DAVID LEVITHAN Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical ...
DAVID LEVITHAN My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.
DAVID LEVITHAN The words were clumsy in my mouth, like typing with hammers.
DAVID LEVITHAN So what do you have to confess now?"
I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that is th...
DAVID LEVITHAN My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get aw...
DAVID LEVITHAN Do I really have to find a word for it? Can't it just be what it is?
DAVID LEVITHAN