They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
AIDAN CHAMBERSShe 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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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There’s always hope.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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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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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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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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I cannot live without reading.
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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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