And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
AIDAN CHAMBERSHowever much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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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 thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it.
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