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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.

“If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions.”

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“only adj.

thats the dilemma isn't it? when you're single, there's the sadness and joy of only me. And when you're paired, there's the sadness and joy of only you.”

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“Things rarely get fixed the way they need to be.”

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“I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean them as much as the other ones.”

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“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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“.

There are times when I doubt everything. When I regret everything you've taken from me, everything I've given you, and the waste of all the time I've spent on us.”

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“.

In the end, we both want the right thing to happen, the right person to win, the right idea to prevail. We have no faith that it will, but still we want it. Neither of us has given up on anything.”

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“.

Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.”

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“Neophyte, n.

There are millions upon millions of people who have been through this before-- why is it that no one can give my good advice?”

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“I have already spent roughly five thousand hours asleep next to you. This has to mean something.”

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“Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.”

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“andAt the core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect.”

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“I don’t like it when you use my shampoo, because then your hair smells like me, not you.”

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“But we comforted ourselves with what we really meant to say, which was: "I don't normally feel this good about what I'm doing."
Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling.
Everything else will be measured against it.”

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“.

The natural state. Our moods change. Our lives change. Our feelings for each other change. Our bearings change. The song changes. The air changes. The temperature of the shower changes.
Accept this. We must accept this.”

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“What a strange phrase — –not seeing other people. As if it’s been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it.”

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“I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. It can't even get itself out of the bottle.”

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“barfly n.
You have the ability to talk to anyone which is an ability I do not share.”

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“Sometimes desire is air, sometimes desire is liquid. And every now and then, when everything else is air and liquid, desire solidifies, and the body is the magnet that draws its weight.”

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