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
AIDAN CHAMBERSAll 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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Your weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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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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How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as ‘facts.’ Yes, I know that in this case one ‘fact’ was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a ‘fact,’ and act on it as if it were true.
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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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I cannot live without reading.
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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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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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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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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!
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