I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
AIDAN CHAMBERSYet, 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!
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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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 when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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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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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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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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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say 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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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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