black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Aidan Chambers

And trust dies from ifs and buts
AIDAN CHAMBERS

But Dies From Trust
Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Corodes Disease Doe Kill Pity Self
Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Almost Made Obvious Reader
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.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Alive Anyone Feel Help Herself Know More Need Seeming Someone Think Unsettele
There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Allow Know Yourself never Time Want
Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

All Give IT never Otherwise Yourself
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.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Attractive Beautiful Become Celebrity Conventionally Fact Impressive More
History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Future History Made Past Path Present
All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and I love you more than ever.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Already Ever Love More Something Think Time
Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Anything Being Bored Boring Doing Nothing
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?
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Just Like Love Now Possible Same Someone Time
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.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Always Ask Believe Boy Man Right Want
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

Always Being Crush Flood Flow Love Real River Sea Strength Tide
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

Accused Faced Fact Ignore Much Prefer Resent Something
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

Against Strongest Them Those Use Weakness
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
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Author Book Confession Life Matter Most Need Speak Thing
There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Know Time When Yourself
And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Alive Feel Name Pleased Saying Speak Wanted
I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Page Paragraph Puff Struggle Well Word
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

Envy Older Sense Someone Sometimes Strong Thinking Young
The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Fact Life Sometimes Styles Unwelcome
The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Being Bored Nothing Pleasure
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

Excite Full Hurt Joy Sadness Terror
How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as ‘facts.’ Yes, I know that in this case one ‘fact’ was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a ‘fact,’ and act on it as if it were true.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Accept Case Clever Imagine Know Mind Sometimes
Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Better Flow Let Go
Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Again Chance Get Miss Moments never
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Literature Read Reader

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Aidan Chambers Quotes