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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSMiss the moment and you never get a chance again.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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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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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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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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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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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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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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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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