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• “I wonder- if nobody is listening to my voice, am I making any sound at all?”

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• “And I’m platonically in love with you.”
  “That was literally the boy-girl version of ‘no homo’, but I appreciate the sentiment.”

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• “But books–they’re different. When you watch a film, you’re sort of an outsider looking in. With a book–you’re right there. You are inside. You are the main character.”

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• “Everyone's different inside their head.”

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• “I wonder sometimes whether you've exploded already, like a star, and what I'm seeing you is three million years into the past, and you're not here anyore. How can we be together here, now, when you are so far away. When you are so far ago? I'm shouting so loudly, but you never turn around to see me. Perhaps it is I who have already exploded. Either way, we are going to bring beautiful things into the universe.”

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• “Being clever was, after all, my primary source of self-esteem. I’m a very sad person, in all senses of the word, but at least I was going to get into university.”

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• “I wish I could be as subtle and beautiful. All I know how to do is scream.”

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• “I think everyone’s a bit bored with boy-girl romances anyway,” he said. “I think the world’s had enough of those, to be honest.”

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• “Everything's better under the stars, I suppose. If we get another life after we die, I'll meet you there, old sport...”

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• “Hello.
  I hope somebody is listening.”

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• “I couldn’t quite believe how much I seriously loved Aled Last, even if it wasn’t in the ideal way that would make it socially acceptable for us to live together until we die.”

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• “He smiled and looked away. 'Sometimes I think we're the same person...but we just got accidentally split into two before we were born.”

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• “Give your friendships the magic you would give a romance. Because they're just as important. Actually, for us, they're way more important.”

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• “As far as I'm concerned, I came out of the womb spouting cynicism and wishing for rain.”

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• “People move on quicker than I can comprehend. People forget you within days, they take new pictures to put on Facebook and they don't read your messages. They keep on moving forward and shove you to the side because you make more mistakes than you should.”

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• “This is real, this is me,' I said.
  She blinked. 'Did you just quote Camp Rock at me? That's not very pop punk."
  'I've gotta go my own way.'
  'Okay, firstly, that's High School Musical...”

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• “It must be useful to be smart," she said and then laughed weakly. She glanced down and suddenly looked very sad. "I'm like, constantly scared I'm going to be a homeless or something. I wish our whole lives didn't have to depend on our grades.”

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• “I don’t want people to be worried about me. There’s nothing to worry about. I don’t want people to try and understand why I’m the way I am, because I should be the first person to understand that. And I don’t understand yet. I don’t want people to interfere. I don’t want people in my head, picking out this and that, permanently picking up the broken pieces of me.”

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• “Most adults see teenagers as confused kids who don't understand much, while they're the pillars of knowledge and experience and know exactly what is right at all times.
  I think the truth is that everyone in the entire world is confused and nobody understands much of anything at all.”

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• “All I know is that I’m here. And I’m alive. And I’m not alone.”

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• “You're an idiot,' said Mum, when I relayed to her the entire situation on Wednesday. 'Not an unintelligent idiot, but a sort of naive idiot who manages to fall into a difficult situation and then can't get out out of it because she's too awkward.”

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• “That's why people get into fandom and bands and stuff. They just want something to hold on to something that makes them feel good. Even if it's all a big lie.”

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• “In an otherwise mediocre existence, we chose to feel passion.”

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• “I've learnt some Things. Like the way friendship can be just as intense, beautiful and endless as romance. Like the way there's love everywhere around me - there's love for my friends, there's love for my paintings, there's love for myself.”

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• “I wonder – if nobody is listening to my voice, am I making any sound at all?”

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