We resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.
AIDAN CHAMBERSEven if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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.
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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.
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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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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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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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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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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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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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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