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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSHistory dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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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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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
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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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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they’re just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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