81 Quotes by Aidan Chambers

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

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.

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

It’s like a sleepover, when you feel you can say all kinds of things, because the darkness hides your blushes.

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?

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.

And in short measures life may perfect be.

Karl was no glamour boy. But even during this first meeting I discovered he had something better. The kind of intelligence that’s more attractive than physical beauty.

Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old books, new books, library books, other people’s books, one’s own books – it does not matter whose or where. Simply to be among books, glancing at one here, reading a page from one over there, enjoying them all as objects to be touched, looked at, even smelt, is a deep satisfaction.