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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.

Aidan Chambers

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
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
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
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
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
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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Literature Read Reader
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
Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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Dislike Even Exist Least Name Saying Speak
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.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Excite Full Hurt Joy Sadness Terror
If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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Emotional Fear Make Passionate Worse
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
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
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
Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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Almost Made Obvious Reader
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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Alive Anyone Feel Help Herself Know More Need Seeming Someone Think Unsettele
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

And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.

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