And trust dies from ifs and buts
AIDAN CHAMBERSThere are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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I cannot live without reading.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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