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I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they’re just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.

Aidan Chambers

Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Anything Being Bored Boring Doing Nothing
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
We resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.
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Accused Faced Fact Ignore Much Prefer Resent Something
The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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Friend Lovable Memorable Most People
And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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Anyone Pay Price Should
Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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All Give IT never Otherwise Yourself
Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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Corodes Disease Doe Kill Pity Self
If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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Emotional Fear Make Passionate Worse
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
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Author Book Confession Life Matter Most Need Speak Thing
If a boy, if a man, asks you if you’re all right and you say yes, he’ll always believe you and get on with what he wants to do. It’s just the way they’re made.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Always Ask Believe Boy Man Right Want
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.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

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.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Beautiful Look Past Pat Quiet Sight Tense Using
I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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Page Paragraph Puff Struggle Well Word
And trust dies from ifs and buts
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But Dies From Trust
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

I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they’re just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.

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I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they’re just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.

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