Your weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.
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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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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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 you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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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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How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as ‘facts.’ Yes, I know that in this case one ‘fact’ was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a ‘fact,’ and act on it as if it were true.
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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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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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.
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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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