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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSAnd trust dies from ifs and buts
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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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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When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.
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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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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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