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.
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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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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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