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.
Aidan ChambersIf 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.
Aidan ChambersYet, 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 ChambersRooms 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.
Aidan ChambersLove, being in love, isnโt a constant thing. It doesnโt always flow at the same strength. Itโs not always like a river in flood. Itโs more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows. The thing is, when love is real, whether itโs ebbing or flowing, itโs always there, it never goes away. And thatโs the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy
Aidan Chambers