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• And I find myself saying, “It wasn’t really about her.” And finding it’s true. What do you mean?” Norah asks. It was about the feeling, you know? She caused it in me, but it wasn’t about her. It was about my reaction, what I wanted to feel and then convinced myself that I felt, because I wanted it that bad. That illusion. It was love because I created it as love.

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  Mean, Feelings, Illusion

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

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• You never get involved in the people's lives? The ones you're inhabiting?" I shake my head. "You try to leave the lives the way you found them." "Yeah." "But what about Justin? What made that so different?" "You," I say.

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  People, Trying, Different

  David Levithan (2012). “Every Day”, p.131, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Self-esteem can be so exhausting. I want to cut my hair, change my clothes, erase the pimple from the near-tip of my nose, and strengthen my upper-arm definition, all in the next hour.

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  Self Esteem, Cutting, Clothes

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.28, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I have learned how to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present, because that is where I am destined to live.

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  Past, People, Focus

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.10, Egmont UK

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• Maybe tonight you're scared of falling, and maybe there's somebody here or somewhere else you're thinking about, worrying over, fretting over, trying to figure out if you want to fall, or how and when you're gonna land, and i gotta tell you, friends, to stop thinking about the landing, because it's all about falling.

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  Fall, Thinking, Land

  "Will Grayson, Will Grayson". Book by David Levithan, 2011.

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• It's like, you know how sometimes you see a really sexy baby? Wait.

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  Sexy, Baby, Waiting

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.92, Penguin

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• I want to talk to you and be random with you and be ridiculous with you.

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  Want, Ridiculous

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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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• Hello, my name is ees Lebkuchen Spice, and I vant to show you my coooooookies.

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  Names, Spices, Hello

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.54, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus.

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  Three, Fetus, Forty

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• With some break-ups, all you can think about afterwards is how badly it ended and how much the other person hurt you. With others, you become sentimental for the good times and lose track of what went wrong.

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  Hurt, Thinking, Track

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.18, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.

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  Writing, Character, Plot

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.181, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears.

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  Beautiful, Ideas, Ordinary

  Michael Cart, Francesca Lia Block, David Levithan, Ron Koertge, Eric Shanower (2009). “How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity”, p.10, Harper Collins

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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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• 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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• 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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• Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be.

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  Want, Be Careful, Careful

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.122, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It's only a game if there is an absence of meaning. And we've already gone too far for that.

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  Games, Gone, Absence

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.180, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• New Yorkers love the bigness -- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out some smallness for themselves. When the guy at the corner store knows which newspaper you want. When the barista has your order ready before you open your mouth. When you start to recognize the people in your orbit, and you know that, say, if you're waiting for the subway at eight fifteen on the dot, odds are the redhead with the red umbrella is going to be there too.

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  Odds, Order, Eight

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• detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it.

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  Care, I Care, Detachment

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.69, Macmillan

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• ...but the truth is that I don't feel like I can carry anyone but myself right now. The streets are empty. I am empty. Or, no--I am full of pain. It's my life that's empty.

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  Pain, Truth Is, Empty

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.20, Egmont UK

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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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• The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

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  Breathe, Ability, Asthma

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.39, Macmillan

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• It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason. And maybe I've gotten it backward, maybe it's just because I need a reason that I find myself falling in love with her. But I don't think that's it. I think I would have continued along, oblivious, if I hadn't happened to meet her.

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  Falling In Love, Thinking, When You Love Someone

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.46, Egmont UK

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