He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
AIDAN CHAMBERSYou have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There’s always hope.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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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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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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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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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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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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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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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