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
AIDAN CHAMBERSI 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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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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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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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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