Aidan Chambers Quotes
Aidan Chambers 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.
2749 Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
4845 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?
2119 If we try to measure Now, we find it's always gone, has become part of the past.
4344 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 calmness that frightens.
1207 I cannot live without reading.
2694 I don't just want to ban The Bomb. I want to ban all bombs, whatever, and all bombers, whoever, and all bombings, whyever. There have to be better ways of saying no and making changes.
2334 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.
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