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Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices.

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Use, Spices, Spice Of Life

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for the first time in my life i realize why hangers are called hangers, because after fifteen minutes of trying things on and throwing them aside, all i want to do is hook one to the top of my closet door, lean my neck into the loop, and let my weight fall.

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Fall, Doors, Trying

John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.66, Penguin

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isaac knows how stupid i find these things, and he finds them just as stupid as i do. like lol. now, if there's anything stupider than buddy lists, it's lol. if anyone ever uses lol with me, i rip my computer right out of the wall and smash it over the nearest head. i mean, it's not like anyone's laughing out loud about the things they lol. i think it should be spelled loll, like what a lobotomized person's tongue does. loll. loll. i can't think any more. loll. loll!

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Wall, Rip, Stupid

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I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too.

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Great Aunt, Knows

Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.161, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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I immediately suspected there was much more to it than was being said.

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Said

Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.116, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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But whether or not you are here, you are here—because these words are for you, and they wouldn't exist if you weren't here in some way.

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Way, Ifs

Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.90, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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Every two people cause and intersection. Every person alters the world.

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Two, People, World

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When is a night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply realize that you have to? When the club closes or when you everyone leaves? "It's over when you decide it's over," she says. "When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky.

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Sleep, Night, Sky

Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.102, Egmont UK

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I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It's an infinite playlist.

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Song, Moving, Night

Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.104, Egmont UK

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Once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you're breathing it in. Even after smoke becomes air, there is the memory of smoke. I am seeing as if by the light of a match, a glimpse of my life and having it feel right.

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Memories, Optimistic, Light

David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.11, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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But isn't this a dance? Isn't all of this a dance? Isn't that what we do with words? Isn't that what we do when we talk, when we spar, when we make plans or leave it to chance? Some of it's choreographed. Some of the steps have been done for ages. And the rest -- the rest is spontaneous. The rest has to be decided on the floor, in the moment, before the music ends.

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Age, Done, Steps

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Are you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire?

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Desire, Thrill, Pure

Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.19, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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I couldn't fault her for believing, because I had to imagine i was nice to have that illusion still intact.

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Nice, Believe, Faults

Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.58, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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All this hoping for something- or someone- that's maybe hopeless. I'm having a hard time processing what I am supposed to believe, or if I'm even supposed to. There is too much information, and I don't like a lot of it.

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Believe, Hard Times, Hoping For Something

Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.71, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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I find my greatest strengths in wanting ti be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave.

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Strong, Bravery, Brave

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Its a fine line between love and stalking.

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Lines, Stalking, Fine Lines

David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.158, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily that I felt we'd all been duped by Plato and the idea of a soul mate. Just in case it turned out that she was mine.

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Plato, Ideas, Soul

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

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aloof, adj. It has always been my habit, ever since junior high school, to ask that question: “What are you thinking?” It is always an act of desperation, and I keep on asking, even though I know it will never work the way I want it to.

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School, Thinking, Asking

David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

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It was a laugh that came from the tip of his toes, gaining force and soul as it traveled through his body and out into the world in mirthful bursts. There wasn't anything fake about it; it was an amusement park of a laugh, and when it appeared, you wanted to jump on board.

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Laughing, Fake, Soul

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And I'm moved, it's so beautiful. Not what I wrote, but to have it given back like this. To have her remember the words and the tune. To hear it in her voice.

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Beautiful, Voice, Tunes

Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.83, Egmont UK

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Maybe there is hope in the fragments, that what is lost can always be filled in by someone who knows.

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Filled In, Fragments, Lost

David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.105, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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I had no idea what I wanted, only that I wanted something, which is the worst kind of wanting.

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Ideas, Kind, Worst

David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.63, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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I don’t want to know anything, and I want to know it all

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Want, Know It All, Knows

David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.16, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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But if I didn’t want to be alone, then why didn’t I want to be with anyone else?

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Want, Wants To Be Alone, Ifs

David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.66, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.

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Long, People, Esoteric

Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.61, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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