There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
AIDAN CHAMBERSLove, 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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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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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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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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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.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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I cannot live without reading.
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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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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