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For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.

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Lovers, Wanted

David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.131, Macmillan

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I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean them as much as the other ones.

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Love You, Mean, Half

David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.159, Macmillan

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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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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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I find faith in human perseverance, even as the universe throws challenge after challenge our way.

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Perseverance, Challenges, Way

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.52, Egmont UK

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I love you,” she says. “I love you,” I say. And then we hang up, because nothing else needs to be said after that. I want to give Zara her life back. Even if I feel I deserve something like this, I don’t deserve it at her expense.

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Love You, Zara, Giving

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.182, Egmont UK

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Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.

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Wrong Person, Deals, Fear Of Being Alone

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

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I have always been aware of how I break. I know what kind of situations will break me. I know what kind of people will do it. I know how much it will hurt.

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Hurt, People, Kind

David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.43, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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You existed. You existed now as a fractal. Definition: A fractal is generally a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be broken into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole. Maybe I was a fractal. Maybe the photographer was a fractal. Maybe we were all fractals.

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Geometric Shapes, Broken, Definitions

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Every you, every me. Fractals. Fractures.

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Fractals, Fracture

David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.187, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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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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I'm not in love with you.

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Love You

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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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exemplar, n. It's always something we have to negotiate- the face that my parents are happy, and yours have never been. I have something to live up to, and if I fail, I still have a family to welcome me home. You have a storyline to rewrite, and a lack of faith that it can ever be done. You love my parents, I know. But you never get too close. You never truly believe there aren't bad secrets underneath.

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Believe, Home, Parent

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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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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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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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I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend.

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Faces, Valuable, Face Value

John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.64, Penguin

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How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.

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Stories, Forgotten, Tombs

David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.102, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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I want to take back the secrets I told you so I can decide now whether to tell them to you again. I want to take back the piece of me that lies in you, to see if I truly miss it. I want to take back at least half the “I love you”s, because it feels safer that way.

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Lying, Love You, Missing

David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.159, Macmillan

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I want to know why this is such a part of me. I want to know why this thing that happened to other people has happened so much to me. I keep looking for the lesson.

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People, Lessons, Want

David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.104, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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I had a sense then of how if we truly understood how many of the unimportant things we do will end up outliving us, we'd never be able to go on.

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Unimportant Things, Goes On, Able

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