Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
AIDAN CHAMBERSIf you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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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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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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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