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
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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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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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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I cannot live without reading.
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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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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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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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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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