How do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but “older,” if that makes sense. As someone I like to look at, not just because you’re good to look at, but because just looking at you makes me smile and feel happier.
AIDAN CHAMBERSSometimes 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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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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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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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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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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