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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.

Aidan Chambers

I cannot live without reading.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Live Read Without
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 CHAMBERS

Beautiful Look Past Pat Quiet Sight Tense Using
Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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Dislike Even Exist Least Name Saying Speak
However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Always Being Giving Keep Part Should Somebody Yourself
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
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.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Actually Being Good Love Term Thinking True
And trust dies from ifs and buts
AIDAN CHAMBERS

But Dies From Trust
You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Consciousness Form Seeing Story Thought World
And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Anyone Pay Price Should
I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Away Book Entertainment Pass People Throw Time Write
Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Altered Building Fixed One Puling Room Size Wall
The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Always Ebbing Fancy Goes Infatuation Love Passing Proof Thing
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
I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Lovely River Strange Thought
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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Book Doing Important Money People Size Writing
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Literature Read Reader

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