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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

Aidan Chambers

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
There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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Allow Know Yourself never Time Want
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
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
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
Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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Altered Building Fixed One Puling Room Size Wall
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
I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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Away Book Entertainment Pass People Throw Time Write
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
I cannot live without reading.
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Live Read Without
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
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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Actually Being Good Love Term Thinking True
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
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
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
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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