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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSAs 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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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