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 CHAMBERSShe 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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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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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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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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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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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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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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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