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.
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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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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Yet, isn’t it strange, isn’t it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is!
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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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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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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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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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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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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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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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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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