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!
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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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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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 trust dies from ifs and buts
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Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don’t do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it.
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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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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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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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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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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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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.
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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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