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• Are you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire?

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  Desire, Thrill, Pure

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.19, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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• Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.

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  Song, Long, Form

  David Levithan (2008). “Wide Awake”, p.5, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• everyone in our school has afterschool activities. mine is going home.

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  Home, School, Mines

  David Levithan (2015). “Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story”, p.151, Penguin

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• It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer.

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  Memories, Games, Play

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• There are times when I worry that I've already lost myself. That is, that my self is so inseparable from being with you that if we were to separate, I would no longer be. I save this thought for when I feel the darkest discontent. I never meant to depend so much on someone else.

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  Self, Worry, Lost

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.160, Macmillan

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• In school, the year was the marker. Fifth grade. Senior year of high school. Sophomore year of college. Then after, the jobs were the marker. That office. This desk. But now that school is over and I've been working at the same place in the same office at the same desk for longer than I can truly believe, I realize: You have become the marker. This is your era. And it's only if it goes on and on that will have to look for other ways to identify the time.

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  Senior, Jobs, Believe

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.179, Macmillan

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• arrears, n. My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that. "It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

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  Mistake, Would Be, Lapses

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• And still, for all the jealously, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that we're together. That someone like me could find someone like you --- it renders me wordless. Because surely words would conspire against such luck, would protest the unlikelihood of such a turn of events.

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  Doubt, Luck, Together

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.75, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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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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• I hope suffering don't exist.

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  Suffering

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• I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else.

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  Hurt, New Relationship, Wonder

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.59, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence of yourself that says it better than you ever could?

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  Giving, Trying, Way

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.17, Egmont UK

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• You made me lose my appetite, Boomer." "My mom tells me that all the time. Your family must be just like mine!

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  Mom, Made, Appetite

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• I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten. It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF.

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  Teacher, Gay, Self

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.8, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I find my greatest strength in wanting to be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave. I don't know if I've ever realized it before,[...] I think we both realize it now. If there's no feeling of fear, then there's no need for courage.

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  Strong, Thinking, Bravery

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.156, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Maybe, it's not the distance that's the problem, but how you handle it.

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  Relationship, Distance, Problem

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• Danger comes in many forms, I suppose. For some people, it might be jumping off a bridge or climbing impossible moutains. For others, it could be a tawdry love affair or telling off a mean-looking bus driver because he doesn't like to stop for noisy teenagers. It could be cheating at cards or eating a peanut even though you're allergic. For me, danger might be getting out from the protective cloak of my family and venturing into the world more of my own, even though I don't know what- or who- awaits me.

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  Cheating, Teenager, Mean

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.145, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices.

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  Use, Spices, Spice Of Life

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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