There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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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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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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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