Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
AIDAN CHAMBERSI will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they’re just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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 when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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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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Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows.
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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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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 plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies 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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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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