Your weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.
AIDAN CHAMBERSThere are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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How 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.
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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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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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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Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it.
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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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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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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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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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 passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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I cannot live without reading.
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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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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows.
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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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