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!
AIDAN CHAMBERSYou have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There’s always hope.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they’re just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.
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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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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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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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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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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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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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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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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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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