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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSMiss the moment and you never get a chance again.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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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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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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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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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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