The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
AIDAN CHAMBERSShe 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.
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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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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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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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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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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