Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
AIDAN CHAMBERSYou get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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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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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There’s always hope.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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