If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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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 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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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