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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.

Aidan Chambers

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
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
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
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
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
I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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Lovely River Strange Thought
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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Literature Read Reader
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
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
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
I cannot live without reading.
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Live Read Without
History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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Future History Made Past Path Present
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
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
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
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

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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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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