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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.

Aidan Chambers

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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Literature Read Reader
Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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Again Chance Get Miss Moments never
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
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
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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Already Ever Love More Something Think Time
Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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All Give IT never Otherwise Yourself
The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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Fact Life Sometimes Styles Unwelcome
Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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Corodes Disease Doe Kill Pity Self
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
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
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
Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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Almost Made Obvious Reader
Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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Always Life Like Novel One
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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Accused Faced Fact Ignore Much Prefer Resent Something
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
And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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Anyone Pay Price Should

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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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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