They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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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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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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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I 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.
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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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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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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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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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