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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they’re just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.
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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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I cannot live without reading.
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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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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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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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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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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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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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