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 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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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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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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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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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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Become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.
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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.
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