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.

Aidan Chambers

Categorized in : Two Mind Clever

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.

Aidan Chambers

chance missing opportunity

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?

Aidan Chambers

time-love i-love-you-more thinking

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.

Aidan Chambers

being-yourself should giving

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.

Aidan Chambers

being-true love-is thinking

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

Aidan Chambers

novel life-is

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

Aidan Chambers

path made past

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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being-in-love crush real

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

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obvious reader made

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

Aidan Chambers

flow

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.

Aidan Chambers

know-yourself knows want

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.

Aidan Chambers

alive speak names

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

Aidan Chambers

difficult knowing sometimes

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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loyal-and-faithful emotional strong

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.

Aidan Chambers

envy strong thinking

You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope.

Aidan Chambers

despair giving-up sticks

I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.

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lovely strange rivers

Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.

Aidan Chambers

doing-nothing bored boring

Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.

Aidan Chambers

giving mean thinking

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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accused resent facts

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.

Aidan Chambers

sight beautiful past