I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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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Your weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.
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If a boy, if a man, asks you if you’re all right and you say yes, he’ll always believe you and get on with what he wants to do. It’s just the way they’re made.
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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don’t do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss 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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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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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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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and I love you more than ever.
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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