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 CHAMBERSSometimes 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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Yet, isn’t it strange, isn’t it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is!
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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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How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as ‘facts.’ Yes, I know that in this case one ‘fact’ was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a ‘fact,’ and act on it as if it were true.
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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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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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Your weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.
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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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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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