I cannot live without reading.
AIDAN CHAMBERSLove, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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 pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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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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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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in 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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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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Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows.
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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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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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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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