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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSBecome 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they’re just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.
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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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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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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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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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