Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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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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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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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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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.
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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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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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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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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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.
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I cannot live without reading.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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