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So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.

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Said, Wanted

David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.106, Macmillan

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I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It's an infinite playlist.

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Song, Moving, Night

Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.104, Egmont UK

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And I told you: I think of a photograph you took of me, up in Montreal. You told me to jump in the air, so in the picture, my feet are off the ground. Later, I asked you why you wanted me to do that, and you told me it was the only way to get me to forget about the expression on my face. You were right. I am completely unposed, completely genuine. In my mind’s eye, I picture myself like that, reacting to you.

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Eye, Thinking, Air

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I would always wait to take you home.

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Home, Waiting

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You leave the phone on beside you as you fall asleep. I sit in my bed and listen to your breathing, until I know you are safe, until I know you no longer need me for the night.

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Fall, Night, Phones

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These words are now mine, but soon they’ll be ours.

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Mines

David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.81, Macmillan

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Even if neither of us got what we wanted, we found freedom in the third choices.

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Choices, Found, Wanted

David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan

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The key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us.

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Keys, Imbalance

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

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By the time I got there, you’d already decided. And I quickly decided to let you decide. You were already seeing the rooms as ours, and that was enough for me.

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Rooms, Enough, Decided

David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.41, Macmillan

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yearning n. and adj. At te core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect.

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Perfect, Desire, Belief

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Do you know when you cross against traffic? You look down the street and see a car coming, but you know you can get across before it gets to you. So even though there’s a DON’T WALK sign, you cross anyway. And there’s always a split second when you turn and see that car coming, and you know that if you don’t continue moving, it will all be over. That’s how I feel a lot of the time. I know I’ll make it across. I always make it across. But the car is always there, and I always stop to watch it coming.

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Moving, Car, Watches

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...and suddenly you started singing out your love for me. My name and everything, loud enough to reach the top floors of all the buildings. I should have told you to stop, but I didn’t want you to stop. I didn’t mind if your love for me woke people up. I didn’t mind if it somehow sneaked into their sleep.

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Sleep, Should Have, Names

David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.183, Macmillan

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His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.

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Wall, Book, Sea

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

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Things are going so well. We’re volleying words back and forth. Everything she says, I have something I can say back. We’re sparking, and part of me just wants to sit back and watch. We’re clicking. Not because a part of me is fitting into a part of her. But because our words are clicking into each other to form sentences and our sentences are clicking into each other to form dialogue and our dialogue is clicking together to form this scene from this ongoing movie that’s as comfortable as it is unrehearsed.

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Together, Watches, Our Words

Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.47, Egmont UK

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And I'm moved, it's so beautiful. Not what I wrote, but to have it given back like this. To have her remember the words and the tune. To hear it in her voice.

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Beautiful, Voice, Tunes

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

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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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placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.

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Lying, Sometimes, Placid

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incessant adj. The doubts. You had to save me from my constant doubts. That deep-seeded feeling that I wasn't good enough for anything I was a fake at my job I wasn't your equal my friends would forget me if I moved away for a month. It wasn't as easy as hearing voices nobody was telling me this. It was just something I knew. Everyone else was playing along but I was sure that one day they would all stop.

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Jobs, Voice, Fake

David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.113, Macmillan

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barfly n. You have the ability to talk to anyone which is an ability I do not share.

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Share, Ability

David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.28, Macmillan

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A guy can do far far worse than surrounding himself with people who restore his faith in humanity.

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People, Guy, Humanity

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

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Its a fine line between love and stalking.

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Lines, Stalking, Fine Lines

David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.158, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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I find my greatest strengths in wanting ti be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave.

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Strong, Bravery, Brave

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isaac knows how stupid i find these things, and he finds them just as stupid as i do. like lol. now, if there's anything stupider than buddy lists, it's lol. if anyone ever uses lol with me, i rip my computer right out of the wall and smash it over the nearest head. i mean, it's not like anyone's laughing out loud about the things they lol. i think it should be spelled loll, like what a lobotomized person's tongue does. loll. loll. i can't think any more. loll. loll!

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Wall, Rip, Stupid

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for the first time in my life i realize why hangers are called hangers, because after fifteen minutes of trying things on and throwing them aside, all i want to do is hook one to the top of my closet door, lean my neck into the loop, and let my weight fall.

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Fall, Doors, Trying

John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.66, Penguin

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Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse.

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Knowing, Space, Impossible

David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.114, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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