If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
AIDAN CHAMBERSAnd trust dies from ifs and buts
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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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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We resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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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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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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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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