I cannot live without reading.
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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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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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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.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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
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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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