There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
AIDAN CHAMBERSRooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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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.
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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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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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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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 cannot live without reading.
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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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A joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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