Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
AIDAN CHAMBERSAnd trust dies from ifs and buts
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
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I cannot live without reading.
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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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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 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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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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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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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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