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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSHowever much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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I cannot live without reading.
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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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