Aidan Chambers Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.”
-- Aidan ChambersSource : Aidan Chambers (2012). “Dying to Know You”, p.189, Abrams
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“However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.”
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“Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.”
-- Aidan ChambersSource : Aidan Chambers (2012). “Dying to Know You”, p.96, Abrams
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“History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.”
-- Aidan ChambersSource : Aidan Chambers (2010). “This Is All”, p.147, Random House
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“Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?”
-- Aidan ChambersSource : Aidan Chambers (1999). “Postcards from No Man's Land: A Novel”, Random House (UK)
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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. 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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“There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.”
-- Aidan ChambersSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“Rooms are a fixed size, which can't be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones. They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who's in them.”
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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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“And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.”
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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.”
-- Aidan ChambersSource : Aidan Chambers (2010). “This Is All”, p.367, Random House
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“All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and I love you more than ever. 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?”
-- Aidan ChambersSource : Aidan Chambers (2010). “This Is All”, p.762, Random House
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“And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.”
-- Aidan ChambersSource : Aidan Chambers (2010). “Now I Know”, p.34, Random House
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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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“He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.”
-- Aidan ChambersSource : Aidan Chambers (2004). “Postcards from No Man's Land”
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“How do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but "older," if that makes sense. As someone I like to look at, not just because you're good to look at, but because just looking at you makes me smile and feel happier. 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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“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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“The demons of the Devil don't use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones. If you're rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you're loyal and faithful, they turn those against you. If you're passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears. 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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“Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.”
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“You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.”
-- Aidan ChambersSource : "Shock tactics" by Alison Brace, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2000.
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“You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.”
-- Aidan ChambersSource : "Shock tactics" by Alison Brace, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2000.
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“Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it. I don't write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.”
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“I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they're just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.”
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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.”
-- Aidan ChambersSource : "Shock tactics" by Alison Brace, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2000.
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“I thought how lovely and how strange a river is...”
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“Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.”
-- Aidan ChambersSource : "Shock tactics" by Alison Brace, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2000.
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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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“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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“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! How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as 'facts.' Yes, I know that in this case one 'fact' was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a 'fact,' and act on it as if it were true.”
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“I cannot live without reading.”
-- Aidan ChambersSource : Aidan Chambers (2010). “This Is All”, p.562, Random House
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