I cannot live without reading.
AIDAN CHAMBERSThey should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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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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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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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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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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