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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSIf you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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 don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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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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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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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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The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy
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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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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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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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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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