Aidan Chambers Quotes

It was astonishing to see how angry Cersei could wax over accusations she knew perfectly well to be true.

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

I'm not letting him write anything. I didn't do anything. I just took his pen.

He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

It never feels good when people suggest that you did something wrong and you know you didn't.

Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies.

Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn't know about something bad, it wasn't happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.

I think there is one smashing rule: never face the facts.

The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them.

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial.

Don't face the facts.

Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.

There are lots of things we choose not to see. Doesn't mean they aren't there, even if we wish they weren't.

I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel.

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

If you consider yourself a friend, dont tell me." Because if i know the rumors, i'll feel like i have to confront the. and right this second i want to live in ignorant bliss.

When your head is firmly in the sand, another part of your anatomy is fully exposed.

And you call yourself a Christian,' were Hilly's words to me and I thought, God. When did I ever do that?

You didn't answer my question. Are you all right?" I didn't do anything" Yeah. You did." He looked at me. "You did a lot" -Chloe & Derek-

you're the liar" - Mimi Force

Yes, it's your fault I'm alive.