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.
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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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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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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy
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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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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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