He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
AIDAN CHAMBERSIf you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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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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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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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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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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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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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 you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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