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 CHAMBERSYour weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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.
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I cannot live without reading.
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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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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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There’s always hope.
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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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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.
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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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