Aidan Chambers Quotes, Believe Quotes, Boys Quotes

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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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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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 huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.

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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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The demons of the Devil don't use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones. If you're rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you're loyal and faithful, they turn those against you. If you're passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears. 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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.

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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

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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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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.

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And trust dies from ifs and buts

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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.

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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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?

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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.

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