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I'm not in love with you.

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Love You

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Love me less, but love me for a long time

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Long, Long Time

David Levithan (2015). “Another Day”, p.190, Egmont UK

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What I really want, and what I never get - is to be appreciated.

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Want, Appreciated

John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.152, Penguin

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.

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Order, Sound, Venture

David Levithan (2015). “Another Day”, p.36, 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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Even though I'm seventeen, I guess I still thought this would always be true - that there would always be that lost-and-found, and not the lost-and-still-lost that I am now trapped inside.

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Lost, Found, Being True

David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.12, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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I cannot think of a single word to describe what we feel. I think we all feel it, to varying degrees. Perhaps in some other language there is a word for 'the world is terribly wrong.' That feeling of stun and unbelief and abandonment and shock and horror and distress.

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Thinking, Feelings, Degrees

David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.38, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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It will affect me in ways I can't even begin to get my mind around. This day is a dark crater. There is no room for songs. The songs are wrong. Every song is wrong. And I don't know what to do without music.

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Song, Dark, Mind

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Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.

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Breathing, Realizing, Cry

David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.74, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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Someday your prince will come," I assure him. "And the first thing I'm going to say to him is, 'What took you so long?

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Long, Firsts, Someday

David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.98, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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But I want to feel like life matters. I had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.

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Real, Want, Matter

David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.103, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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