DaDavid Levithan is the author of many acclaimed novels, including Boy Meets Boy, the New York Times bestselling Will Grayson, Will

Grayson

(with John Green), and Nick & Norah’s Infinite

Playlist
(with Rachel Cohn), which was adapted into a popular movie. He is also an editorial director at
Scholastic in
New York. David lives in New Jersey.

THE

LOVER'S
DICTIONARY
DAVID LEVITHAN

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Originally published in 2011 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
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Text design by Jonathan D. Lippincott
National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry
Author: Levithan, David.
Title: The lover’s dictionary / David Levithan.

ISBN: 9781921656910 (pbk.)
Dewey Number: 813.6

For my parents, with gratitude and wonder

Contents
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P

Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
acknowledgments

A aberrant, adj.
“I don’t normally do this kind of thing,” you said.
“Neither do I,” I assured you.
Later it turned out we had both met people online before, and we had both slept with people on first dates before, and we had both found ourselves