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 CHAMBERSI don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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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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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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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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