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 CHAMBERSThe 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 CHAMBERSIs it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
AIDAN CHAMBERSShe 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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSWhen you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.
AIDAN CHAMBERSYou have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There’s always hope.
AIDAN CHAMBERSThere are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
AIDAN CHAMBERSSelf pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
AIDAN CHAMBERSI huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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!
AIDAN CHAMBERSNever give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
AIDAN CHAMBERSHe thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
AIDAN CHAMBERSHow 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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSLife is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
AIDAN CHAMBERSHistory dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
AIDAN CHAMBERSWe resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.
AIDAN CHAMBERSAnd when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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