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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

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
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
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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Always Despair Give Giving Hope never Stick Truth Up
Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it.
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Book Doing Important Money People Size Writing
The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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Friend Lovable Memorable Most People
Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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Anything Being Bored Boring Doing Nothing
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
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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Excite Full Hurt Joy Sadness Terror
If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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Emotional Fear Make Passionate Worse
They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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Change Depending Proportion Shape Sometimes Unchange
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
If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
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Against Argue Case Faithfully Logical Rational
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
The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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Being Bored Nothing Pleasure
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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Clever Imagine Know Mind Same Someone Strange Thing Two
I cannot live without reading.
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Live Read Without
Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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Better Flow Let Go
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
However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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Always Being Giving Keep Part Should Somebody Yourself
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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Accused Faced Fact Ignore Much Prefer Resent Something
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
You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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Consciousness Form Seeing Story Thought World
The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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Fact Life Sometimes Styles Unwelcome
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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Already Ever Love More Something Think Time
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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Attention Belief Exist Giving Glad Mean Reality Think Thinking Willing World
Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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Dislike Even Exist Least Name Saying Speak

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