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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSThe 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
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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Yet, isn’t it strange, isn’t it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is!
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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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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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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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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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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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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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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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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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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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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 want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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I 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.
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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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