You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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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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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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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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I cannot live without reading.
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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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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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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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