I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
AIDAN CHAMBERSDoing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Like just now. Like now. How is it possible? Can you love someone more and more and at the same time, all the time, love them as much as it’s possible to love someone?
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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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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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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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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.
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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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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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When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.
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Yet, 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!
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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