Yet, 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!
AIDAN CHAMBERSHow 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.
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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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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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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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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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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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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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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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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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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