81 Quotes by Aidan Chambers

Yes, even in your mouse moods you only play with the idea of not being." She cleared her throat again. "Biology, you see. It’s because of biology that we want to live and not to die. And it is because of biology that we come to a time when we want to die and not to live.

I cannot live without reading.

Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?

Maybe we should always start everything from the inside and work to the outside, and not from the outside to the inside. What d'you think?

If we try to measure Now, we find it's always gone, has become part of the past.

Don't be his story. Don't be anyone else's story. Be your own story. Protect yourself.

At the end of things we turn into historians. Sometimes happy, sometimes nostalgic, sometimes regretful or bitter, sometimes to reassure ourselves that we have amounted to something, however small. And sometimes, as I am doing now, to try with the wisdom of hindsight to make sense of ourselves.

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, become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.

And trust dies from ifs and buts