Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
AIDAN CHAMBERSI 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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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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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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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don’t do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it.
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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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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.
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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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