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!
AIDAN CHAMBERSHowever much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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As someone who knows her mind and who I envy for that. As someone who is strong in herself without seeming to need anyone else to help her. As someone who makes me thinks and unsettles me in a way that makes me feel more alive.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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We resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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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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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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