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.
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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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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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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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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A joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say 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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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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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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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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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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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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