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 CHAMBERSThe 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
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it.
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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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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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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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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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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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