However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
AIDAN CHAMBERSThey should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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 pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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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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