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.
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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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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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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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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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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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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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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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 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
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