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Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough.

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Trying, Enough, Ifs

David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.178, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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It was a laugh that came from the tip of his toes, gaining force and soul as it traveled through his body and out into the world in mirthful bursts. There wasn't anything fake about it; it was an amusement park of a laugh, and when it appeared, you wanted to jump on board.

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Laughing, Fake, Soul

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I had no idea what I wanted, only that I wanted something, which is the worst kind of wanting.

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Ideas, Kind, Worst

David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.63, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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elliptical, adj. The kiss I like the most is one of the slow ones. It’s as much breath as touch, as much no as yes. You lean in from the side, and I have to turn a little to make it happen.

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Kissing, Littles, Sides

David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.78, Macmillan

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It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date. It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit. It just has to be.

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Valentine, Usual, Three

David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.156, Egmont UK

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Deep breaths. I am taking deep breaths. Composure. Which, for me, means composing... Maybe this is my way of creating the illusion of control over something I have no control over. Like, if it's just a story I'm telling or a song I'm singing, then I'll be okay because I'm the guy who's providing the words.

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Song, Mean, Creating

Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2007). “Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.133, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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What's the big deal with France? How come everyone wants to go there? Let me tell you about France. Their music sucks. Their movies suck. Their berets suck. Their croissants are pretty good, but the place overall still sucks.My family went there once on the way to visit Dad's homeland family. EuroDisney. Need I say more?

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Dad, Needs, Want

Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2007). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.117, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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I measure the moment in the heartbeats I skip

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Moments, Heartbeat, Skip

David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.47, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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there was a time before you but I can't remember it now a time before your beauty and I were formally introduced I'm sure I lived without you but I don't remember how can't imagine living without these feelings you've produced just one glance and my life was redrawn just one word and my vocabulary changed I asked the time and you said 'what's the hurry?' you asked my name and I almost forgot

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Vocabulary, Names, Feelings

David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.35, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair. I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare. I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind. I hate you so much it makes me sick; it even makes me rhyme. I hate it, I hate the way you're always right. I hate it when you lie. I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry. I hate it when you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call. But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you. Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.

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Hate, Lying, Cutting

"Fictional character: Kat Stratford". "10 Things I Hate About You", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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and when he catches me off guard and says 'i love you' i catch him off guard and say 'i need your help.

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Love You, Needs, Helping

David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.34, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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scapegoat, n. I think our top two are: 1. Not enough coffee. 2. Too much coffee.

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Coffee, Thinking, Two

David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.168, Macmillan

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hubris, n. Every time I call you mine, I feel like I'm forcing it, as if saying it can make it so. As if I'm reminding you, and reminding the universe: mine. As if that one word from me could have that kind of power.

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Kind, Hubris, Feels

David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.107, Macmillan

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To love--to fall--is not a question. To touch--to kiss--to speak--those are questions.

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Fall, Kissing, Speak

David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.138, Egmont UK

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They defy gravity, as good books should.

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Book, Good Book, Should

David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.46, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds.

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Color, Taste, Deeper

David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.12, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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I couldn't remember ordinary moments, only the ones that had made an impression. Ordinary moments were the ones that fell away first.

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Ordinary, Firsts, Remember

David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.86, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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I kiss her and she finds the light switch and turns it off, and we're just lit in Pepsi-can colors and it's like we've finally found this other kind of conversation, this conversation in gestures and pulls and pushes and breaths and grasps and teases and glimmers and rubs and expectation.

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Kissing, Light, Color

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Two infinities: the one that stretches to the beginning but never touches-when you halve and halve and halve, infinitely-and then the one that spreads out into the endless, endless future, the endless, endless, distance.The set of infinities that is itself infinite.

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Distance, Two, Infinity

David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.29, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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A year. A thousand kisses. And now a thousand one, a thousand two. There are so many other place we could have ended up, but I have to believe none of them would have felt this right. "All I want is you" is not entirely true. I want so much more, and with you I think I can get it.

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Believe, Kissing, Thinking

David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.208, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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luckily, tiny texts me every five minutes or so. i don't know how he does it without getting caught in class. maybe he hides the phone in the folds of his stomach or something.

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Phones, Class, Doe

John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.111, Penguin

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it's the belief, not the words, that mean everything. it's the floating.

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Mean, Floating, Belief

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We are so used to releasing words, we don't know what to do with them if they stay. No matter how many times we let them go, they come back. The words that matter always stay.

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Matter, Possibility, Used

David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.143, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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need is never a good basis for any relationship. it has to be much more than that.

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Needs, Bases

John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.154, Penguin

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that's it - hundreds of texts and conversations, thousands upon thousands of words spoken and sent, all boiled down into a single line. is that what relationships become?

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Lines, Conversation, Single Line

John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.185, Penguin

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