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 CHAMBERSIs it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
-
-
Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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 -
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 -
There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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 -
You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
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






