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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

Aidan Chambers

How do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but “older,” if that makes sense. As someone I like to look at, not just because you’re good to look at, but because just looking at you makes me smile and feel happier.
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Envy Older Sense Someone Sometimes Strong Thinking Young
Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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Almost Made Obvious Reader
Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it.
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Book Doing Important Money People Size Writing
Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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Dislike Even Exist Least Name Saying Speak
A joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.
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Excite Full Hurt Joy Sadness Terror
She was–I keep using the past tense; I ought to say she is–one of those people who, at first sight, look plain, are quiet, unassertive, unmemorable even. But who, when they start to talk and you get to know them.
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Beautiful Look Past Pat Quiet Sight Tense Using
Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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Corodes Disease Doe Kill Pity Self
He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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Difficult Explain Knowing Only Sometimes Yourself
And trust dies from ifs and buts
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But Dies From Trust
And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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Alive Feel Name Pleased Saying Speak Wanted
How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as ‘facts.’ Yes, I know that in this case one ‘fact’ was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a ‘fact,’ and act on it as if it were true.
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Accept Case Clever Imagine Know Mind Sometimes
The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy
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Always Ebbing Fancy Goes Infatuation Love Passing Proof Thing
There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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Allow Know Yourself never Time Want
When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.
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Conscious Everything Experience First Teenage Time Year
The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself
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Author Book Confession Life Matter Most Need Speak Thing
Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows.
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Always Being Crush Flood Flow Love Real River Sea Strength Tide

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