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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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Fighting, Pet, Sake

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.52, Egmont UK

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I’ve found that people tend to trust other people who dress like them.

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People, Dresses, Trust Others

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.59, Egmont UK

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Little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance.

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Promise, Littles, Chance

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.63, Egmont UK

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When we’re alone together, I’m the destination. When I’m here in her life at school, I’m the disruption.

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School, Together, Destination

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.156, Egmont UK

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He doesn’t just look upset—he looks newly blind. There is such loss in his eyes, and it permeates every other part of his body.

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Eye, Loss, Upset

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.160, Egmont UK

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As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we’re really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.

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Sickness, Moments, Trade

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.161, Egmont UK

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She is carrying herself through the day, and it’s not an easy task.

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Tasks, Easy, Easy Tasks

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.37, Egmont UK

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Her vulnerability is open, but she’s safe within it.

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Safe, Vulnerability

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.19, Egmont UK

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I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.

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Beautiful, Sadness, Clay

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.37, Egmont UK

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it's gonna hurt because it matters.

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Hurt, Hipster, Matter

David Levithan (2015). “Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story”, p.142, Penguin

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I only have eyes for you.

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Eye

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.126, Egmont UK

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Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.

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Want, Indicators, Persons

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.131, Egmont UK

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It won't be a normal life-I know that. But it will be a life. A life together.

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Together, Normal, Knows

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.168, Egmont UK

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I love you-I do-but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because you're always going to leave me, A. We can't deny it. You're always going to leave.

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Love You, Important, Deny

David Levithan (2015). “Another Day”, p.253, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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I know from experience that beneath every peripheral girl is a central truth. She’s hiding hers away, but at the same time she wants me to see it.

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Girl, Want, Hiding

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.9, Egmont UK

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They don’t have silences together; they have noise. Mostly his.

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Silence, Together, Noise

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.13, Egmont UK

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He is much stronger than I think I am. He is mischievous, outgoing, ready to soar through the clouds, while I often feel like the cloud itself.

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Thinking, Clouds, Stronger

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i have never had anybody talk to me like this. this is not a flirty sixth-grade phone call or bantering with friends or words passed in a note. i feel that if my soul could talk it would talk like this.

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Flirty, Phones, Soul

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When I say, "Be my lover", I don't mean, "Let's have an affair." I don't mean "Sleep with me." I don't mean, "Be my secret." I want us to go back down to that root. I want you to be the one who loves me. I want to be the one who loves you.

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Love You, Mean, Sleep

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

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It doesn't feel like a date. It doesn't feel like friendship. It feels like something that fell off the tightrope but hasn't yet hit the net.

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Feels, Like Something

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.165, Egmont UK

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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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Real, Thinking, Trying

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.168, Egmont UK

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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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Decision, Get Better, Belief

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.48, Egmont UK

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Why do we feel the need to disconnect in order to connect?

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Order, Needs, Feels

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being with someone for over a year can mean that you love them … but it can also mean you’re trapped.

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Mean, Years, Trapped

David Levithan (2015). “Another Day”, p.36, Egmont UK

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Belonging. Togetherness. These words are as complicated and confusing as the word love. It’s probably all the same thing. Or it would be if we let it be. I can only guess from observation.

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Confusing, Would Be, Complicated

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