Become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.
AIDAN CHAMBERSThey should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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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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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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Yet, isn’t it strange, isn’t it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is!
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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don’t do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it.
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I don’t actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn’t true it can’t be love.
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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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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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If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
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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.
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I cannot live without reading.
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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