You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
AIDAN CHAMBERSYou become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
AIDAN CHAMBERSA 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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSSelf pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
AIDAN CHAMBERSAnd trust dies from ifs and buts
AIDAN CHAMBERSIf you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
AIDAN CHAMBERSI thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
AIDAN CHAMBERSThe most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
AIDAN CHAMBERSIf a boy, if a man, asks you if you’re all right and you say yes, he’ll always believe you and get on with what he wants to do. It’s just the way they’re made.
AIDAN CHAMBERSHow 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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSThe 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
AIDAN CHAMBERSAs 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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSHe thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
AIDAN CHAMBERSBelief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
AIDAN CHAMBERSYour weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.
AIDAN CHAMBERSFame, 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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSThe pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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