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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

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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 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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She 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, 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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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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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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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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I cannot live without reading.

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

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

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

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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.

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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts

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