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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSAs 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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I cannot live without reading.
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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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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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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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We resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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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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Your weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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