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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSHow do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but “older,” if that makes sense. As someone I like to look at, not just because you’re good to look at, but because just looking at you makes me smile and feel happier.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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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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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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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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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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When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy
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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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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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