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
AIDAN CHAMBERSShe 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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 thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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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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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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