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
AIDAN CHAMBERSHow do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but “older,” if that makes sense. As someone I like to look at, not just because you’re good to look at, but because just looking at you makes me smile and feel happier.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There’s always hope.
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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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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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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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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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How do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but “older,” if that makes sense. As someone I like to look at, not just because you’re good to look at, but because just looking at you makes me smile and feel happier.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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