Aidan Chambers Quotes

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

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a joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.

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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.

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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.

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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.

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

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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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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.

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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.

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

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Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it. I don't write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.

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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

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

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I cannot live without reading.

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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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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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