He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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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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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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows.
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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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