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Impatiently waiting for Every You, Every Me by David Levithan to come in. I’ve been wanting to read this for a while and finally ordered it ! A novel with pictures?! I mean how could I not be interested in how this is going to turn out?

Let’s all take a moment to appreciate the fact that Deryn Sharp managed to attract and kiss a boy and a girl, both of whom are attracted to girls (well we think Lillit is) all while dressed like a boy. Reason number 2752418393 why Deryn Sharp is better than you.

“It would be too easy to say I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.”

—David Levithan, Every Day

vagary [ˈveɪgərɪ vəˈgɛərɪ] n.

I read David Levithan’s “Lover’s Dictionary.” It was AWESOME. It’s a novel about love and the idea of love written in dictionary format. It isn’t arranged in chronological order but rather alphabetical (well duh, captain obvious, it’s a dictionary. Haha.) I have a new favorite word. I found it in that book. It’s VAGARY.

According to Merriam-Webster free online dictionary, vagary means:

 an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion.

But according to Levithan’s Lover’s Dictionary:

The mistake is thinking there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.

God, I love Levithan. He’s a genius. If only I could write like him, I’d stop studying and just write, write, write. I don’t know what I’m doing with this post but whatever. I guess, I just wanted to share my new favorite word. Sorry, my life is full of vagaries. And you’ll witness it in this blog.

“Ubiquitous, adj. When it’s going well, the fact of it is everywhere. It’s there in the song that shuffles into your ears. It’s there in the book you’re reading. It’s there on the shelves of the store as you reach for a towel and forget about the towel. It’s there as you open the door. As you stare off into the subway, it’s what you’re looking at. You wear it on the inside of your hat. It lines your pockets. It’s the temperature. The hitch, of course, it that when it’s going badly, it’s in all the same places.”

—David Levithan, The Lover’s Dictionary

“I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end”

—David Levithan
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