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.
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!
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and I love you more than ever.
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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they’re just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.
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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
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