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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSAll the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and I love you more than ever.
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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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Like just now. Like now. How is it possible? Can you love someone more and more and at the same time, all the time, love them as much as it’s possible to love someone?
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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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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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Your weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.
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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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