And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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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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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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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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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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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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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