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.
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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Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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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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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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 passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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