Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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I cannot live without reading.
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All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and I love you more than ever.
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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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How do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but “older,” if that makes sense. As someone I like to look at, not just because you’re good to look at, but because just looking at you makes me smile and feel happier.
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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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As someone who knows her mind and who I envy for that. As someone who is strong in herself without seeming to need anyone else to help her. As someone who makes me thinks and unsettles me in a way that makes me feel more alive.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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