And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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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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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 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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When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.
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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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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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