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My face seems too square and my eyes too big, like I'm perpetually surprised, but there's nothing wrong with me that I can fix.

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Eye, Squares, Faces

John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.9, Penguin

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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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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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Your life is inescapable. Unless you decide to escape it.

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Life Is

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That's the question, isn't it?" you said one night. "Does death bring freedom, or is it the end of freedom?

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Night, Doe, Ends

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The world, right now, is only us.

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World, Right Now

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.13, Egmont UK

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Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and want to be every word you say.

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Looks, Want, Words You Say

David Levithan (2012). “Every Day”, p.32, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attachment to -- I don't give them any benefit of the doubt. And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.

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Attachment, Giving, Doubt

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.25, Egmont UK

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I have become very good at clearing histories.

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Very Good, Clearing

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.36, Egmont UK

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This is the trap of having something to live for: Everything else seems lifeless.

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Traps, Lifeless, Seems

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.74, Egmont UK

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Sometimes when you hit send, you can imagine the message going straight into the person's heart. But other times, like this time, it feels like the words are merely falling into a well.

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Fall, Heart, Messages

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I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.

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Beautiful, Sadness, Clay

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.37, Egmont UK

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it's gonna hurt because it matters.

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Hurt, Hipster, Matter

David Levithan (2015). “Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story”, p.142, Penguin

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As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we’re really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.

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Sickness, Moments, Trade

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.161, Egmont UK

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He is much stronger than I think I am. He is mischievous, outgoing, ready to soar through the clouds, while I often feel like the cloud itself.

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Thinking, Clouds, Stronger

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you ask me what I'm looking for, and I outline you. you don't recognize the shape, offer other names. you say my time will come, and I hope.

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Names, Shapes, Ask Me

David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.56, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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Every time you love someone, you put not just your faith in them, but your faith in everything to the test.

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Tests, Love Someone

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How do you commemorate a year? A paper anniversary, but we are the words written down, not the paper.

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Years, Paper, Written

David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.202, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.

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Comforting, Definitions, Want

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It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

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Simple, Complicated, True Things

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

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When I say, "Be my lover", I don't mean, "Let's have an affair." I don't mean "Sleep with me." I don't mean, "Be my secret." I want us to go back down to that root. I want you to be the one who loves me. I want to be the one who loves you.

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Love You, Mean, Sleep

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

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Because what's the point of something virtual if it doesn't end up being real?

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Real, Being Real, Ends

David Levithan (2015). “Another Day”, p.92, Egmont UK

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Beauty comes naturally, but it's hard to be stunning by accident.

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Stunning, Accidents, Hard

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.93, Egmont UK

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I wake up feverish, sore, uncomfortable. Is it sickness or is it heartbreak? I can't tell. The thermometer says I'm normal, but I'm clearly not.

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Wake Up, Normal, Sickness

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It's the way you say thank you like you're genuinely thankful. I have never met anyone else who does that on a regular basis.

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Doe, Way, Like You

David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.155, Macmillan

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