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Gone is not forgotten, but our lives cannot be a memorial. This city cannot be a memorial. This city has to be a city. Our lives have to be our lives.

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Cities, Memorial, Gone

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It will affect me in ways I can't even begin to get my mind around. This day is a dark crater. There is no room for songs. The songs are wrong. Every song is wrong. And I don't know what to do without music.

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Song, Dark, Mind

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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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It is not desire. Instead it is something deeper. I don't want to be with him constantly and forever. I want to be with him for the moment, and I want the moments to go on forever.

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Forever, Desire, Goes On

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I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt.

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Hurt, Want, Honest

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.79, Egmont UK

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You can't deny that there's something between us." "No. There is. When I saw you today--I didn't know I'd been waiting for you until you were there. And then all of that waiting rushed through me in a second. That's something... but I don't know if it's certainty.

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Waiting, Today, Saws

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Indelible, adj. That first night, you took your finger and pointed to the top of my head, then traced a line between my eyes, down my nose, over my lips, my chin, my neck, to the center of my chest. It was so surprising. I knew I would never mimic it. That one gesture would be yours forever.

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Eye, Night, Forever

David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.114, Macmillan

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I notice you, I want to say. Even when no one else does, I do. I will.

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Doe, Want

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.47, Egmont UK

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I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.

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Who I Am, Ideas, Want

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Why do we feel the need to disconnect in order to connect?

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Order, Needs, Feels

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What did it matter to me? Did I think that by making you rational about one thing, I could make you rational about everything? Maybe. Or maybe I just wanted to save you from your fears

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Thinking, Matter, Rational

David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.45, Macmillan

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There are many things that can keep you in a relationship," I say. "Fear of being alone. Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life. A decision to settle for something that's okay, because you don't know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better, even if you know he won't change.

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Decision, Get Better, Belief

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.48, Egmont UK

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..I've been trying to argue myself into thinking these things don't matter, A. Really,I have. But I've lost the argument. And I can't keep having it, when I know what the real answer is.

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Real, Thinking, Trying

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.168, Egmont UK

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It doesn't feel like a date. It doesn't feel like friendship. It feels like something that fell off the tightrope but hasn't yet hit the net.

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Feels, Like Something

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.165, Egmont UK

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Every single answer starts with the phrase 'I don't know.' But most of the time she does know, if I give her the time and the space in which to answer.

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Space, Giving, Doe

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

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Told her she was beautiful. Didn't give up when she didn't believe me.

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Beautiful, Giving Up, Believe

David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.124, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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You don't know, but I'm noticing.

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Knows, Noticing

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

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You see, Dash -- I was never the girl in your head. And you were never the boy in my head. I think we both knew that. It's only when we try to make the girl or boy in our head real that the true trouble comes. I did that with Carlos, and it was a bad failure. Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head.

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Girl, Real, Boys

Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.122, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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being with someone for over a year can mean that you love them … but it can also mean you’re trapped.

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Mean, Years, Trapped

David Levithan (2015). “Another Day”, p.36, Egmont UK

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You are happy even if you are afraid to admit it.

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Ifs

David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.141, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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Maybe there is hope in the fragments, that what is lost can always be filled in by someone who knows.

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Filled In, Fragments, Lost

David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.105, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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This is what my voice sounds like I don't need to be talking to someone else To hear it

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Talking, Voice, Sound

David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.188, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with.

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Want, Share, Source

John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.48, Penguin

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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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