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?
AIDAN CHAMBERSI don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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A joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy
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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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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and I love you more than ever.
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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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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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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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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.
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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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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
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I cannot live without reading.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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