Aidan Chambers Quotes

I'm filled with a new joy mixed with old grief.

My joy is as painful as my pain.

And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.

A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, kill'd by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love.

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice

how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet

What was new was the fact that, despite my heart doing its fight-or-flight, help-we're-prey-and-HEY-STUPID-THAT'S-A-VAMPIRE number, I was glad to see him. Ridiculous but true. Scary but true.

Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.

Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness.

I want people to be ecstatic but to cry at the same time.

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

It looks like I'm just gonna keep getting really, really happy and sad and embarrassed and excited and disappointed for the rest of my life, so let's just do that.

It's lovely. I hate it.

Love mixed with fear is sweetness.

The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.

I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.

So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.

My cup of sweets is not unmingled: it is dashed with a bitterness that I cannot hide from myself, disguise it as I will.

I hate, and yet must love the thing I hate.