Aidan Chambers Quotes

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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,…
• 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…
• 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.…
• 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…
• 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…
• We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I cannot live without reading.
• 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,…
• 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.
• And trust dies from ifs and buts

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