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
AIDAN CHAMBERSHow 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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Become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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