Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
AIDAN CHAMBERSYou have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There’s always hope.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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I cannot live without reading.
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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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