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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

Aidan Chambers

And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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Alive Feel Name Pleased Saying Speak Wanted
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
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
And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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Anyone Pay Price Should
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
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
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
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
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 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
The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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Being Bored Nothing Pleasure
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 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
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.
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Always Being Crush Flood Flow Love Real River Sea Strength Tide
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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Literature Read Reader

Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

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