I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
AIDAN CHAMBERSFame, 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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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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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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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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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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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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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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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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