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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSAnd when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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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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If 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.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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How do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but “older,” if that makes sense. As someone I like to look at, not just because you’re good to look at, but because just looking at you makes me smile and feel happier.
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I don’t actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn’t true it can’t be love.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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