I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
AIDAN CHAMBERSEven if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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I cannot live without reading.
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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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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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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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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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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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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.
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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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