You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it. Aidan Chambers More Quotes by Aidan Chambers More Quotes From Aidan Chambers 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 Chambers chance missing opportunity 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 Chambers time-love i-love-you-more thinking 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. Aidan Chambers being-yourself should giving 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. Aidan Chambers being-true love-is thinking Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are. Aidan Chambers novel life-is History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past. Aidan Chambers path made past 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 Aidan Chambers being-in-love crush real Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it. Aidan Chambers obvious reader made Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go? Aidan Chambers flow 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 Chambers know-yourself knows want 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 Chambers alive speak names He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing. Aidan Chambers difficult knowing sometimes 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. Aidan Chambers clever mind two 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. Aidan Chambers loyal-and-faithful emotional strong 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. Aidan Chambers envy strong thinking You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope. Aidan Chambers despair giving-up sticks I thought how lovely and how strange a river is. Aidan Chambers lovely strange rivers Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing. Aidan Chambers doing-nothing bored boring Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists. Aidan Chambers giving mean thinking We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't. Aidan Chambers accused resent facts
