Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows.
AIDAN CHAMBERSIf 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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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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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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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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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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