However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
AIDAN CHAMBERSA 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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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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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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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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