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 CHAMBERSYou get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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 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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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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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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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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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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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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