If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
AIDAN CHAMBERSHistory dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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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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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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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.
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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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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 most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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