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 CHAMBERSYou get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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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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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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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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I cannot live without reading.
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