Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don’t do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it.
AIDAN CHAMBERSBecome more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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A joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.
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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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I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they’re just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.
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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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Your weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.
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