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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSThey should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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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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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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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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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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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