The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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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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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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A 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.
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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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I cannot live without reading.
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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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