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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSIf 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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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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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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I cannot live without reading.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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