The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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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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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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There’s always hope.
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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they’re just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.
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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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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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