Dying to Know You
Aidan Chambers
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“And trust dies from ifs and buts”
“The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.”
“Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.”
“I sometimes wonder whether most people choose their hobbies because they lust after the gear more than for the benefits of the activities themselves.”
“But the bit I liked best was where it said it's impossible to define love because it takes so many forms and is so complicated.”
“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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