The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
AIDAN CHAMBERSThe plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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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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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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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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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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If a boy, if a man, asks you if you’re all right and you say yes, he’ll always believe you and get on with what he wants to do. It’s just the way they’re made.
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I cannot live without reading.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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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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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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Yet, isn’t it strange, isn’t it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is!
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If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
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We resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.
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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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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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