The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
AIDAN CHAMBERSBelief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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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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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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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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Like just now. Like now. How is it possible? Can you love someone more and more and at the same time, all the time, love them as much as it’s possible to love someone?
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If 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.
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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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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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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