If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
AIDAN CHAMBERSReaders are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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We resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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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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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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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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Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it.
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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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