If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
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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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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All 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.
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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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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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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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I cannot live without reading.
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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 pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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 have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There’s always hope.
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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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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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