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 CHAMBERSYet, isn’t it strange, isn’t it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is!
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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I cannot live without reading.
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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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.
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I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they’re just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.
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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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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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