However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
AIDAN CHAMBERSHow 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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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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If a boy, if a man, asks you if you’re all right and you say yes, he’ll always believe you and get on with what he wants to do. It’s just the way they’re made.
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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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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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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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The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy
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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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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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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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Become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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