Are We There Yet David Levithan Quotes

#1. He treats his body like it's made of fireworks, each one timed to the beat. Is he dancing alone or dancing with everyone in the room? Here's the secret: It doesn't matter.

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#2. But you have to figure that if it's too hard to hang on, then maybe you should let go.

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#3. She caught me looking at her.
'What?' she asked.
'Your lightness,' I said, hardly knowing what I was saying. 'It's disarming.

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#4. And now it's some other guy's hands that are thumbing their way over Joey's face and down Dee Dee's chin and - oh, fucking hell - dropping down between the A and the M, going right for the V under the H&M-meets-S&M miniskirt.

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#5. You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.

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#6. Just because I don't think we'd be good together doesn't mean we have to be apart ...

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

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#8. If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which decisions you're actually going to make, and then you have to let the rest of them go.

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#9. This isn't even something I've feared, because I never knew it was a possibility.

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#10. You make it a production. Slam doors. Knock things over. Scream. But I just leave. Even if I'm still standing there, I leave. I am refusing you. I am denying you. I am an adjective that is quickly turning into a noun.

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#11. But I don't know when that day will arrive, and it would be too easy to forget to marvel at the beauty in this moment. In every moment.

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#12. Some bookstores want you to believe they're a community center, like they need to host a cookie-making class in order to sell you some Proust.

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#13. 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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#14. Most people, I've noticed, are instinctively harsh to strangers. They expect every approach to be an attack, every question to be an interruption.

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#15. When you love
someone, they become your reason.

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#16. I wasn't thinking of marriage, just commitment.
I wasn't thinking of forever, just reveling in now.
We don't know yet how long we're meant to be-
there are so many obstacles down the road.
But there is also possibility; the ring marks the realm of possibility.

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#17. Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold you together

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#18. It's Miranda who speaks up. "You're gay," she says, with complete seriousness. "And I love you.

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#19. Where is your homework?" Mr. McNulty asked.
It's with Ariel.
"There's no such thing as homework," I said.
"What?"
"I mean, I left it at home.

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#20. You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.

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#21. I do not eat breakfast. i never eat breakfast. I haven't eaten breakfast since I was able to walk out the back door without eating breakfast first.

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#22. Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

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#23. I wish i were someone else, even though i know i'll never, ever be able to get away from what i've done and what's been done to me.

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#24. She is no longer a person in his life; instead, she is a person that other people will remind him of.

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#25. It's not his body
that changes
right away.
it's something
inside. he says
he wants to
be a little
weaker. i don't
understand.
i say 'thinner?'
and he says
'no, i want
to be stronger
in a different
way.' not
because of me,
but for me.

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#26. We listen to songs to figure them out, to unravel the mystery of the words and the tune.

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#27. She transforms once again into someone carefree, and I transform into someone whose only care is her.

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#28. But it doesn't mean anything without someone beside him. It's not a game if he's the only one playing.

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#29. I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.

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#30. I am the ticking, i am the pulsing, i am underneath every part of this moment

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#31. Cadence, n.
I have never lived anywhere but New York or New England, but there are times when I'm talking to you and I hit a Southern vowel, or a word gets caught in a Suthern truncation, and I know it's because I'm swimming in your cadences, that you penetrate my very language.

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#32. When it comes to true dance, it's not about how you look, it's all about the joy you feel.

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#33. Every night I pray for a lovely, swoopy-haired homosexual to come to our school, in the same way that Margaret prayed for boobs and my grandfather prays for my eternal salvation.

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#34. Love and I once had a great relationship, but I fear we've broken up. It cheated on me, wrecked my heart, and then went on to date other people. A lot of other people. And I can't stand to watch it, since love's going to cheat on them too.

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