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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.

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.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Alive Anyone Feel Help Herself Know More Need Seeming Someone Think Unsettele
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
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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Literature Read Reader
The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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Being Bored Nothing Pleasure
I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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Away Book Entertainment Pass People Throw Time Write
The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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Friend Lovable Memorable Most People
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
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
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
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
Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
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Attention Belief Exist Giving Glad Mean Reality Think Thinking Willing World
The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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Fact Life Sometimes Styles Unwelcome
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
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
There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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Know Time When Yourself

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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