There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
AIDAN CHAMBERSWe resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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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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Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
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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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The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself
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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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Your weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.
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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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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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