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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSIf you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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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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Like just now. Like now. How is it possible? Can you love someone more and more and at the same time, all the time, love them as much as it’s possible to love someone?
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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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If a boy, if a man, asks you if you’re all right and you say yes, he’ll always believe you and get on with what he wants to do. It’s just the way they’re made.
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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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