Aidan Chambers Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. 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 This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn

2. a joy that hurts with sadnessa sadness that is pleasurablea pleasure full of terrora terror that excitesan excitement that calmsa calmness that frightens. Now I Know

3. Ah, clever clogs, but it will have happened in one of my alternative lives. You know--the lives hot-shot scientists tell us we are living at the same time as this one we know about. Which being so, how do you know that what happens in one of your alternative lives doesn't sometimes leak through into your consciousness in this life, and make you sad that you aren't living that particular alternative life instead of this one? Don't you sometimes feel depressed for no reason you can think of? I do. And maybe that's why. We've had a leak from an alternative life and want that life now. Like wanting an ice cream when you were little, which you knew was in the freezer, but your mom wouldn't let you have it. Postcards from No Man's Land

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

5. Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go? Postcards from No Man's Land

6. 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? Postcards from No Man's Land