We resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.
AIDAN CHAMBERSWhen 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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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 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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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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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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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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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