When is a night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply realize that you have to? When the club closes or when you everyone leaves?
"It's over when you decide it's over," she says. "When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky.


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Maybe that's it, [...] [w]ith what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it i...
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But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.
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Fuck this.
Fuck this wondering. Fuck this trying and trying. Fuck this belief that two people c...
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She's cinematic and I'm a fucking sitcom.
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The way you're singing in your sleep
The way you look before you leap
The strange illusion...
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It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.
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The world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.
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It’s a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn’t really care w...
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My mother said I should have a 'change of scenery.' The word scenery made be think of a play. And as...
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All sorts of yayness floods my brain. Love is such a drug.
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Two infinities: the one that stretches to the beginning but never touches-when you halve and halve a...
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I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistak...
DAVID LEVITHAN
It is much harder to lie to someone's face.
But.
It is also much harder to tell the truth ...
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I didn’t mean to fall in love with you. But it happened. And I can’t erase it. I can’t ignore ...
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tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression...
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Breathing, n
You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older...
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I will be the one to leave you.
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I'll go get the horse and buggy," you'll say. And I'll say, "But I thought we were taking the hoverc...
DAVID LEVITHAN
It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.
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contiguous, adj.

I felt silly for even mentioning it, but once I did, I kne...
DAVID LEVITHAN
You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.
DAVID LEVITHAN
I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.
DAVID LEVITHAN
I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.
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You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here's a hint - ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you,...
DAVID LEVITHAN
There's no such thing as a perfect person, so it makes no sense to write a perfect person. I don...
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I have no idea how he knows when I need him. We can go weeks without speaking, and then, when my blu...
DAVID LEVITHAN
The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations—all of them rearran...
DAVID LEVITHAN
I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend.
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So what else can I tell you?" I asked. "I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me."
She triangled...
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What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people...
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exacerbate, v.

I believe your exact words were: "You're getting too emotion...
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If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accompl...
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yearning, n. and adj.

At the core of this desire is the belief that ...
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Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?
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And still, for all the jealously, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that ...
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ubiquitous, adj.

When it’s going well, the fact of it is everywhere. It�...
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flux, n.

The natural state. Our moods change. Our lives change. Our feeling...
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breathtaking, adj.

Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour be...
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I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. ...
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libidinous, adj.

I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor....
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love, n.

I'm not even going to try.
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lover, n.

Oh, how I hated this word. So pretentious, like it was always bei...
DAVID LEVITHAN
Is that all we need? Can the way we say each other's names encompass all our history, all our love, ...
DAVID LEVITHAN
If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which ...
DAVID LEVITHAN
There was something about our silence that made me comfortable. He wasn't talking to me, but I didn'...
DAVID LEVITHAN
You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all...
DAVID LEVITHAN
There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about...
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Please may this not be a game. Please may this not be a game. Because if it’s a game, I know I’m...
DAVID LEVITHAN
Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.
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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-s...
DAVID LEVITHAN
Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold ...
DAVID LEVITHAN
It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just varia...
DAVID LEVITHAN
I've never understood why looking hot had to be equated with sex and conquest. Whatever happened to ...
DAVID LEVITHAN
Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person ha...
DAVID LEVITHAN
Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you e...
DAVID LEVITHAN
Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical ...
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My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.
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The words were clumsy in my mouth, like typing with hammers.
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So what do you have to confess now?"
I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that is th...
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My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get aw...
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Do I really have to find a word for it? Can't it just be what it is?
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