"Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are."

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Source : Aidan Chambers (2012). “Dying to Know You”, p.96, Abrams

Aidan Chambers

#Life Is Quotes #Novel Quotes

“Every day you waste is one you can never make up.”
“Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.”
“I have to come to realize that God does not want to punish us, but rather, to fulfill our lives. God created us, loves us and wants to help us to realize our potential so that we can be useful to others.”
“In the world of comic books, "troublemaker" means someone who has some sense of dignity.”

Source : "Eisner/Miller". Book by Frank Miller and Will Eisner, 2005.
“For more than a year, he'd felt destined to marry Isabel Arundell; now, suddenly, he wasn't so sure. He loved her, that was certain, but he also resented her. He loved her strength and practicality but resented her overbearing personality and tendency to do things on his behalf without consulting him first; loved that she tolerated his interest in all things exotic and erotic but hated her blinkered Catholicism. Charles Darwin had killed God but she and her family, like so many others, still clung to the delusion.”
“PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.”
“Nothing is more beautiful than a beautiful girl who does not pretend to be something she is not. A girl who is down to earth and lets no guy define who she is.”
“Awareness is the greatest agent for change.”

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