Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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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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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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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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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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