He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
AIDAN CHAMBERSLove, 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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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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