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 CHAMBERSIs it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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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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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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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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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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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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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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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