And trust dies from ifs and buts
AIDAN CHAMBERSBecome 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.
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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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I cannot live without reading.
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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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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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All 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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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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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Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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As someone who knows her mind and who I envy for that. As someone who is strong in herself without seeming to need anyone else to help her. As someone who makes me thinks and unsettles me in a way that makes me feel more alive.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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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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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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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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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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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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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.
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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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