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

Aidan Chambers

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
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
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
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
Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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Again Chance Get Miss Moments never
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
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
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
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
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 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
Like just now. Like now. How is it possible? Can you love someone more and more and at the same time, all the time, love them as much as it’s possible to love someone?
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Just Like Love Now Possible Same Someone Time
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
Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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Corodes Disease Doe Kill Pity Self
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

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

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