I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
AIDAN CHAMBERSAnd when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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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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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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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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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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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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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 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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Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don’t do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it.
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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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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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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