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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSAll 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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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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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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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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