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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSYour weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
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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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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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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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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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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.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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I cannot live without reading.
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She was–I keep using the past tense; I ought to say she is–one of those people who, at first sight, look plain, are quiet, unassertive, unmemorable even. But who, when they start to talk and you get to know them.
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When 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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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Sometimes 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.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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 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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We resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.
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