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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.

Aidan Chambers

Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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Corodes Disease Doe Kill Pity Self
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
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
Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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Almost Made Obvious Reader
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
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
The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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Being Bored Nothing Pleasure
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
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
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
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.
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Conscious Everything Experience First Teenage Time Year
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
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
Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don’t do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it.
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Chance Course Depend Heartbeat Missing Opportunity Second
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
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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Literature Read Reader
I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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Lovely River Strange Thought
However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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Always Being Giving Keep Part Should Somebody Yourself
The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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Devil Emotional Faithful Loyal One Strong Weakness Against
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
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
Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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All Give IT never Otherwise Yourself
And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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Anyone Pay Price Should
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
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
I cannot live without reading.
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Live Read Without
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

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