Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
AIDAN CHAMBERSThe demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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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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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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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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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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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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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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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Like just now. Like now. How is it possible? Can you love someone more and more and at the same time, all the time, love them as much as it’s possible to love someone?
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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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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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I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they’re just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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