And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
AIDAN CHAMBERSHistory dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
-
-
You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
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.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
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.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
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.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
We resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
Yet, isn’t it strange, isn’t it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is!
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
Your weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
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.
AIDAN CHAMBERS