Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
AIDAN CHAMBERSSometimes 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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I cannot live without reading.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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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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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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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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