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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.

Aidan Chambers

The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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Being Bored Nothing Pleasure
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.
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Conscious Everything Experience First Teenage Time Year
The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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Devil Emotional Faithful Loyal One Strong Weakness Against
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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Beautiful Look Past Pat Quiet Sight Tense Using
And trust dies from ifs and buts
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But Dies From Trust
I cannot live without reading.
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Live Read Without
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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Always Ask Believe Boy Man Right Want
History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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Future History Made Past Path Present
I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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Page Paragraph Puff Struggle Well Word
Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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Corodes Disease Doe Kill Pity Self
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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Attractive Beautiful Become Celebrity Conventionally Fact Impressive More
Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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All Give IT never Otherwise Yourself
The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy
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Always Ebbing Fancy Goes Infatuation Love Passing Proof Thing
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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Compromise Content Important Language People Thinking
Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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Always Life Like Novel One
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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Author Book Confession Life Matter Most Need Speak Thing

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