Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
AIDAN CHAMBERSMiss the moment and you never get a chance again.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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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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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There’s always hope.
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I cannot live without reading.
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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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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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If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
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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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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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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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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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