Your weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.
AIDAN CHAMBERSThe plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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 cannot live without reading.
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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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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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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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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Like just now. Like now. How is it possible? Can you love someone more and more and at the same time, all the time, love them as much as it’s possible to love someone?
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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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