And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
AIDAN CHAMBERSAnd the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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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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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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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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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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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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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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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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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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Like just now. Like now. How is it possible? Can you love someone more and more and at the same time, all the time, love them as much as it’s possible to love someone?
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