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.
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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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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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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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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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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Become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.
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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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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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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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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