There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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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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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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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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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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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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 plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and I love you more than ever.
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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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