There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
AIDAN CHAMBERSEven if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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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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I cannot live without reading.
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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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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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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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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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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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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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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