I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
AIDAN CHAMBERSIf 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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I cannot live without reading.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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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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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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say 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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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