We resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.
AIDAN CHAMBERSThe demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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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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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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Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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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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