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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSLife is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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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 cannot live without reading.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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