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• My mother said I should have a 'change of scenery.' The word scenery made be think of a play. And as we were driving around, it made sense that way. Because no matter how much the scenery changed, we were still on the same stage.

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  Mother, Thinking, Should Have

  David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.192, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.

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  Writing, Character, Two

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.108, Egmont UK

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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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• It daunted me that you were so beautiful, that you were so at ease in social situations, as if every room was heliotropic, with you at the center. And I guess it daunted you that I had so many more friends than you, that I could put my words together like this, on paper, and could sometimes conjure a certain sense out of things. The key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us.

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  Beautiful, Keys, Together

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.65, Macmillan

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• There is the sudden. There is the eventual. And in between, there is the living.

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  Life

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.114, Egmont UK

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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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• Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You can’t exist on a diet of humor alone, but you can’t exist on a diet without it, either.

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  Cotton Candy, Weapons, Shields

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.26, Egmont UK

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• When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.

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  Needs, Should

  David Levithan (2013). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.120, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Magic naturally fades over distance. But proximity - well, when it works, proximity amplifies magic.

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  Distance, Magic, Amplify

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.29, Egmont UK

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• The world is quieter now. It is never quiet, but it can get quieter. What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread. Nighttime is not that. Nighttime still rustles, still creaks and whispers and trembles in its throat. It is not darkness we fear, but our own helplessness within it. How merciful to have been granted the other senses.

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  Silence, Peaceful, Darkness

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• Yes, we could talk to you for days on end about all the bad first dates. Those are stories. Funny stories. Awkward stories. Stories we love to share, because by sharing them, we get something out of the hour or two we wasted on the wrong person. But that's all bad first dates are: short stories. Good first dates are more than short stories. They are first chapters. On a good first date, everything is springtime. And when a good first date becomes a relationship, the springtime lingers. Even after it's over, there can be springtime.

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  Two, Awkward, Stories

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.21, Egmont UK

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• You can give words, but you can't take them. And when words are given, that is when they are shared. We remember what that was like. Words so real they were almost tangible. There are conversations you remember, for certain. But more than that, there is the sensation of conversation. You will remember that, even when the precise words begin to blur.

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  Real, Giving, Tangible

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.35, Egmont UK

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• This isn't even something I've feared, because I never knew it was a possibility.

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  Possibility

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.5, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• There are boys so enraptured by love that they can't get their hearts to slow down enough to get some rest, and other boys so damaged by love that they can't stop picking at their pain.

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  Pain, Heart, Boys

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.15, Egmont UK

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• Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.

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  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.6, Egmont UK

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• We gather the things we learned, and they don't nearly add up to fill the space of a life. You will miss the taste of Froot Loops. You will miss the sound of traffic. You will miss your back against his. You will miss him stealing the sheets. Do not ignore these things.

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  Space, Missing, Sound

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.7, Egmont UK

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• ...he hopes that maybe it'll make people a little less scared of two boys kissing than they were before, and a little more welcoming to the idea that all people are, in fact, born equal, no matter who they kiss or screw, no matter what dreams they have or love they give.

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  Dream, Kissing, Boys

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.112, Egmont UK

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• She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for.

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  Long, Hanging On, Realizing

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

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• why won't they leave me alone? don't they realize I have a tinder heart and a paper body and that any spark will turn me straight to ash?

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  Heart, Leave Me Alone, Ashes

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.20, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• There is no word for our kind of friendship. Two people who don't see each other a lot, but can make each other effortlessly happy

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  Two, People, Kind

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• These teenager looks aren't going to last forever, and that there are much better foundation to build a life upon than how attractive you are.

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  Teenager, Forever, Foundation

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.93, Egmont UK

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• I am starting to get tired of relying on words. They are full of meaning, yes, but they lack sensation. Writing to her is not the same as seeing her face as she listens. hearing back from her is not the same as hearing her voice. I have always been grateful for technology, but now it feels as if there's a little hitch of separation woven into any digital interaction. I want to be there, and this scares me. All my usual disconnected comforts are bieng taken away, now that I see the greater comfort of presence.

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  Grateful, Taken, Writing

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

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• If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.

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  Comforting, Definitions, Want

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• It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

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  Simple, Complicated, True Things

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.11, Egmont UK

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• It was rather awkward, insofar as we were both teetering between the possibility of something and the possibility of nothing.

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  Awkward, Possibility

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.194, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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