History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
AIDAN CHAMBERSThe demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy
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All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and I love you more than ever.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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When 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.
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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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