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The Lover's Dictionary

The Lover's Dictionary is a 2011 novel by the American author David Levithan. It is his first novel for adults. This modern love story is told entirely through dictionary entries which are brief and concise, having a very unusual pattern and style.

“I want my own books to have their own shelves," you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together.”

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"I want my books to have their own shelves", you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together.
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“I will be the one to leave you.”

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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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“It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”

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“.

I spent all this time building a relationship. Then one night I left the window open and it started to rust.”

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“If you and I really, truly wanted to change the world, we'd invent more words that started with.”

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“When I say,, I don't mean,. I don't mean,. I don't mean,.
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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“adj.
It has always been my habit, ever since junior high school, to ask that question:
“What are you thinking?”
It is always an act of desperation, and I keep on asking, even though I know it will never work the way I want it to.”

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“For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.”

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“arrears, n.
My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that.
"It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”

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“You leave the phone on beside you as you fall asleep. I sit in my bed and listen to your breathing, until I know you are safe, until I know you no longer need me for the night.”

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“.

"Most times, when I'm having sex, I'd rather be reading."
This was, I admit, a strange thing to say on a second date.
I guess I was just giving you a warning.
"Most times when I'm reading," you said, "I'd rather be having sex".”

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“I would always wait to take you home.”

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“This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.”

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“.

I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't realize you're on the floor.”

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“But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion.”

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“.

At the end of the French movie, the lover sings, "Love me less, but love me for a long time.”

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“I'm not even going to try.”

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“Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once.”

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“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.”

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