History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
AIDAN CHAMBERSShe 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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I cannot live without reading.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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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.
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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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