There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
AIDAN CHAMBERSThe pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new 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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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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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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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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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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I cannot live without reading.
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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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