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Every You, Every Me

Name: Every You, Every Me
Author: David Levithan

Every You, Every Me is a 2011 novel by the American author David Levithan. The book consists of photographs by Jonathan Farmer and corresponding text by Levithan.

“A photograph it a souvenir of a memory.
It is not a moment.
It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.”

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“I couldn't remember ordinary moments, only the ones that had made an impression. Ordinary moments were the ones that fell away first.”

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“Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.”

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“That word again. Happy. It’s a curse. The pursuit of happiness makes us deeply unhappy. It’s a trap. Before anything else happened, there was me in bed, thinking of who you used to be.
I don’t want you to think I forgot.”

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“This is the thing they don't tell you about being a third wheel - it's not like you're the wheel that's added on. You were one of the original two wheels, but suddenly you're not so important anymore. The relationship drives fine without you.”

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“Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough.”

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“There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one.”

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“There's no way to release yourself from a memory. It ends when it wants to end, whether it's in a flash or long after you've begged it to stop.”

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“I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds.”

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“He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things.”

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“I was starting to think I was making up memories, just to have answers.
Our brain does that sometimes.
Or at least mine does.”

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“I try to be a careful person. Most of the time my carelessness is completely unintentional.”

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“I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.”

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“You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.”

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“Every you, every me. Fractals. Fractures.”

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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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“If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore.”

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“I have always been aware of how I break.
I know what kind of situations will break me.
I know what kind of people will do it.
I know how much it will hurt.”

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“I don’t want you to think I got through this undamaged, okay? But I’m learning to live with it. Because otherwise, the damage is all you are.”

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“I asked you what you wanted and you said you didn't want anything. And I told you I wasn't planning on giving you anything; I was planning on giving you something.”

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