They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
AIDAN CHAMBERSWe resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There’s always hope.
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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.
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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.
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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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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.
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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?
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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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