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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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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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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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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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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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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
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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