Aidan Chambers Quotes, Clever Quotes, Two Quotes

Yet, isn't it strange, isn't it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is! 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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Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

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Rooms are a fixed size, which can't be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones. They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who's in them.

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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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All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and I love you more than ever. 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 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 will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they're just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.

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

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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.

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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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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.

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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

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