Aidan Chambers Quotes, Hurt Quotes, Sadness Quotes

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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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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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts

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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.

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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.

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Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.

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

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There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.

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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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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. As someone who knows her mind and who I envy for that. As someone who is strong in herself without seeming to need anyone else to help her. As someone who makes me thinks and unsettles me in a way that makes me feel more alive.

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

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

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Love, 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. 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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