Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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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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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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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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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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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I cannot live without reading.
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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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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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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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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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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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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