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.
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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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I cannot live without reading.
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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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