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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

Aidan Chambers

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
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
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
And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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Anyone Pay Price Should
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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Literature Read Reader
Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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Better Flow Let Go
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
Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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Corodes Disease Doe Kill Pity Self
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
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
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
Become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.
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Attractive Beautiful Become Celebrity Conventionally Fact Impressive More
He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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Difficult Explain Knowing Only Sometimes Yourself
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
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 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

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