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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSLife is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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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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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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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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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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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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