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 CHAMBERSYet, 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!
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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A joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.
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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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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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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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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 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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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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