The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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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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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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She was–I keep using the past tense; I ought to say she is–one of those people who, at first sight, look plain, are quiet, unassertive, unmemorable even. But who, when they start to talk and you get to know 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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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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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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