“stanchion, n.

I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one either. Why does it feel like it's always one or the other? When we embrace, one of us is always holding the other a little tighter.”

—  David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

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David Levithan447
American author and editor 1972

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