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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSI 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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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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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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When 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.
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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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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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Yet, 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!
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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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