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• healthy, adj. There are times when I'm alone that I think, This is it. This is actually the natural state. All I need are my thoughts and my small acts of creation and my ability to go or do whatever I want to go or do. I am myself, and that is the point. Pairing is a social construction. It is by no means necessary for everyone to do it. Maybe I'm better like this. Maybe I could live my life in my own world, and then simply leave it when it's time to go.

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  Mean, Thinking, Small Acts

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.105, Macmillan

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• It is much harder to lie to someone's face. But. It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

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  Lying, Faces, Telling The Truth

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.83, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Holden Caulfield is the embodiment of what we mean by the phrase “young adult” – too young to be a grown-up, but too wise to the world to be completely innocent. He’s caught in the in-between, and that in-between is what all young adult authors write about.

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  Wise, Writing, Mean

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• There's no way to release yourself from a memory. It ends when it wants to end, whether it's in a flash or long after you've begged it to stop.

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  Memories, Long, Want

  David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.27, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold you together

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  Together, Enough, Snaps

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.86, Egmont UK

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• You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree you could be the sun that never leaves the sky this might be the happy ending without the ending this might be a reason to try

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  Fall, Sky, Tree

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.122, Egmont UK

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• I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life. You are a second away from saying it. You have no idea how much I love you.

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  Love You, Writing, Ideas

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.139, Egmont UK

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• I think one of the highest compliments you can give a person is that when you are talking to him, you are not thinking about the fact that you are talking to him. That is, your thoughts and words all exist on a single, engaged level. You are being yourself because you aren't bothering to think about who you should be. It is like when you talk in a dream.

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  Dream, Being Yourself, Thinking

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• This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.

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  Romance, Stories

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• After working for so long on being sure of each other, sure of this thing, suddenly we were unsure again.

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  Long, Unsure

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• For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.

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  Lovers, Wanted

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.131, Macmillan

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• You never let things go unanswered for too long. Emails. Phone calls. Questions. As if you know the waiting is the hardest part for me.

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  Phones, Long, Waiting

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.181, Macmillan

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• That lasting things do, in fact, last.

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  Lasts, Facts, Lasting

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.176, Macmillan

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• So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.

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  Said, Wanted

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.106, Macmillan

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• And I told you: I think of a photograph you took of me, up in Montreal. You told me to jump in the air, so in the picture, my feet are off the ground. Later, I asked you why you wanted me to do that, and you told me it was the only way to get me to forget about the expression on my face. You were right. I am completely unposed, completely genuine. In my mind’s eye, I picture myself like that, reacting to you.

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  Eye, Thinking, Air

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• You leave the phone on beside you as you fall asleep. I sit in my bed and listen to your breathing, until I know you are safe, until I know you no longer need me for the night.

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  Fall, Night, Phones

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• These words are now mine, but soon they’ll be ours.

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  Mines

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.81, Macmillan

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• Even if neither of us got what we wanted, we found freedom in the third choices.

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  Choices, Found, Wanted

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan

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• The key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us.

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  Keys, Imbalance

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.65, Macmillan

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• By the time I got there, you’d already decided. And I quickly decided to let you decide. You were already seeing the rooms as ours, and that was enough for me.

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  Rooms, Enough, Decided

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.41, Macmillan

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• It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date. It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit. It just has to be.

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  Valentine, Usual, Three

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.156, Egmont UK

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• To love--to fall--is not a question. To touch--to kiss--to speak--those are questions.

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  Fall, Kissing, Speak

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.138, Egmont UK

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• Love weaves itself from hundreds of threads.

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  Best Love, Thread

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.68, Egmont UK

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• Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person hasn't suffered like everyone else, doesn't mean they don't hope to still be a good human being in an awful world.

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  Beautiful, Mean, Soul

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.69, Egmont UK

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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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  Moments, Previous Life, Contrast

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.69, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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