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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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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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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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All I get is tomorrow.

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Tomorrow

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teenagers are never joking. when seeking to prove a point, principals and teachers should remember that teenagers are never, ever sarcasic or ironic. if they say "I wish someone would drop a bomb on this school right now," that means they have arranged for a nuclear arsenal to be emptied onto the school and should be immediately suspended and ridiculed. if they say they were merely coming up with a joking excuse to postpone a bio test, reply that all jokes are funny, and that since dropping a bomb on a school is not funny, it is therefore not a joke.

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Teacher, Teenager, School

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I asked you what you wanted and you said you didn't want anything. And I told you I wasn't planning on giving you anything; I was planning on giving you something.

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Giving, Want, Planning

David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.2, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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I think that if you were somehow able to measure the weight of human kindness, it would have weighed more on 9/11 than it ever had. On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring. I have to believe that.

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Kindness, Believe, Caring

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That air. The air afterwards. I wanted to breathe it in. It felt right to breathe it in. Because we were breathing them in, weren't we? And the building. We were breathing it all in. And I thought, there's a part of this that's actually a part of me now. I now have that responsibility. I am alive, and I am breathing, and I can do the things this dust can't do.

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Responsibility, Air, Dust

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I don't get this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired.

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People, Red, Facts

David Levithan (2012). “Every Day”, p.142, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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In my experience, desire is desire, love is love.

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Love Is, Desire Love, Desire

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.89, Egmont UK

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A sound waiting to be a word.

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Waiting, Sound

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

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Are you a vegetarian?' I ask, based on the evidence in front of me. She nods. 'Why?' 'Because I have this theory that when we die, every animal that we've eaten has a chance at eating us back. So if you're a carnivore and you add up all the animals you've eaten--well, that's a long time in purgatory, being chewed.' 'Really?' She laughs. 'No. I'm just sick of the question. I mean, I'm a vegetarian because I think it's wrong to eat other sentient creatures. And it sucks for the environment.

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Mean, Animal, Thinking

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I had made it somewhere special, and I'd gotten there all on my own. Nobody had given it to me. Nobody had told me to do it. I'd climbed and climbed and climbed, and this was my reward. To watch over the world, and to be alone with myself. That, I found, was what I needed.

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Special, Watches, World

David Levithan (2015). “Another Day”, p.18, Egmont UK

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Dispel, v. It was the way you said, “I have something to tell you.” I could feel the magic drain from the room.

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Magic, Way, Rooms

David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.72, Macmillan

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So what do you have to confess now?" I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that is the truth. "I'm confessing that I don't know if I'm ready for this." "What is 'this'?" "Being open. Being hurt. Liking. Not being liked. Seeing the flicker on. Seeing the flicker off. Leaping. Falling. Crashing.

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Hurt, Fall, Ready

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Dash is for sure straight!" Boomer announced. "He has a super-pretty ex-girlfriend named Sofia, who I think he still has a thing for, and also, in seventh grade, there was a game of spin the bottle and it was my turn and I spun and it landed at Dash, but he wouldn't let me kiss him.

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Girlfriend, Kissing, Thinking

Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.187, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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We could call you an ambisexual. A duosexual. A—” “Do I really have to find a word for it?” Kyle interrupts. “Can’t it just be what it is?” “Of course,” I say, even though in the bigger world I’m not so sure. The world loves stupid labels. I wish we got to choose our own. We pause for a moment. I wonder if that’s all—if he just needed to say the truth and have it heard. But then Kyle looks at me with unsure eyes and says, “You see, I don’t know who I’m supposed to be.” “Nobody does,” I assure him.

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Stupid, Eye, World Love

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My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.

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Hurt, Pride, Together

Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.59, Egmont UK

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dissonance, n. Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk to you and you won't. Hours when every noise you make interferes with my silence. Weeks when there is a buzzing in the air, and we both pretend we don't here it.

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Sleep, Night, Air

David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.73, Macmillan

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gravity, n. I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.

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Wonder, Imagine, Gravity

David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.98, Macmillan

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That no matter what i did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed.

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Missing, Way To Live, Matter

David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.87, Egmont UK

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We were painting by numbers, starting with the greens. Because that happened to be our favorite color. And this, we figured, had to mean something.

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Mean, Color, Numbers

David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.11, Macmillan

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