If a boy, if a man, asks you if you’re all right and you say yes, he’ll always believe you and get on with what he wants to do. It’s just the way they’re made.
AIDAN CHAMBERSHe thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself
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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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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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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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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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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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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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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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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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