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
AIDAN CHAMBERSWhen 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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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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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I cannot live without reading.
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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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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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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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