Every Day de David Levithan
I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.
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Every Day de David Levithan
I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.
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Every Day de David Levithan
If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.
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Every You, Every Me de David Levithan
That's the question, isn't it?" you said one night. "Does death bring freedom, or is it the end of freedom?
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Every You, Every Me de David Levithan
If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore.
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Every You, Every Me de David Levithan
A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment. |
Every You, Every Me de David Levithan
Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.
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Every You, Every Me de David Levithan
I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.
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Every You, Every Me de David Levithan
There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one.
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Every You, Every Me de David Levithan
You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.
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The Lover's Dictionary de David Levithan
Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?
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The Lover's Dictionary de David Levithan
yearning, n. and adj. At the core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect. |
The Lover's Dictionary de David Levithan
flux, n. The natural state. Our moods change. Our lives change. Our feelings for each other change. Our bearings change. The song changes. The air changes. The temperature of the shower changes. Accept this. We must accept this. |
The Lover's Dictionary de David Levithan
corrode, v. I spent all this time building a relationship. Then one night I left the window open and it started to rust. |
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The Lover's Dictionary de David Levithan
lover, n. Oh, how I hated this word. So pretentious, like it was always being translated from the French. The tint and taint of illicit, illegitimate affections. Dictionary meaning: a person having a love affair. Impermanent. Unfamilial. Inextricably linked to sex. I have never wanted a lover. In order to have a lover, I must go back to the root of the word. For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted lover, and to be loved. There is no word for the recipient of the love. There is only a word for the giver. There is the assumption that lovers come in pairs. 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 to that root. I want you to be the one who loves me. I want to be the one who loves you. |
The Lover's Dictionary de David Levithan
I want my own books to have their own shelves," you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together.
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The Lover's Dictionary de David Levithan
The key to a successful relationship isn’t just in the words, it’s in the choice of punctuation. When you’re in love with someone, a well-placed question mark can be the difference between bliss and disaster, and a deeply respected period or a cleverly inserted ellipsis can prevent all kinds of exclamations.
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The Lover's Dictionary de David Levithan
The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.
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The Lover's Dictionary de David Levithan
It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer.
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The Lover's Dictionary de David Levithan
livid, adj. Fuck you for cheating on me. Fuck you for reducing it to the word cheating. As if this were a card game, and you sneaked a look at my hand. Who came up with the term cheating, anyway? A cheater, I imagine. Someone who thought liar was too harsh. Someone who thought devastator was too emotional. The same person who thought, oops, he’d gotten caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Fuck you. This isn’t about slipping yourself an extra twenty dollars of Monopoly money. These are our lives. You went and broke our lives. You are so much worse than a cheater. You killed something. And you killed it when its back was turned. |
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