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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More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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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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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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 cannot live without reading.
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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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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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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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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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