The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
AIDAN CHAMBERSLike 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?
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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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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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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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 trust dies from ifs and buts
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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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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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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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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The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself
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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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