There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
AIDAN CHAMBERSWe resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy
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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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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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I cannot live without reading.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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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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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it.
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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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