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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.

Aidan Chambers

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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Alive Anyone Feel Help Herself Know More Need Seeming Someone Think Unsettele
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
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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Literature Read Reader
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
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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Chance Course Depend Heartbeat Missing Opportunity Second
And trust dies from ifs and buts
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But Dies From Trust
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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Just Like Love Now Possible Same Someone Time
And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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Anyone Pay Price Should
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
Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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Corodes Disease Doe Kill Pity Self
Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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Again Chance Get Miss Moments never
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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Against Strongest Them Those Use Weakness
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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Envy Older Sense Someone Sometimes Strong Thinking Young
The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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Fact Life Sometimes Styles Unwelcome
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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Accept Case Clever Imagine Know Mind Sometimes
I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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Lovely River Strange Thought

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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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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