Aidan Chambers Quotes

They see her differently now, as somebody. And isn't that what everyone wants? To be seen?

Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.

Isn't it odd that you have to keep proving you're alive?

I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me, I'm not quite alive.

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.

If you have to tell them who you are, you aren't anybody.

I often think how celebrated I am. / It is difficult not to think how celebrated I am. / And if I think how celebrated I am / They know who know that I am new / That is I knew I know how celebrated I am / And after all it astonishes even me.

If the will did not exist, neither would there be that centre of the world, which we call the I.

An 'I' without a body is a possibility. But a body without an 'I' is utterly impossible.

Identity is this incredible invisible force that controls your whole life. It's invisible, like gravity is invisible, but it controls your whole life.

He raised his eyes. "Sister. See. This time I knew you." Asha's heart skipped a beat. "Theon?" His lips skinned back in what might have been a grin. Half his teeth were gone, and half those still left him were broken and splintered. "Theon," he repeated. "My name is Theon. You have to know your name.

When people say, 'I don't see you enough,' well just because you don't see me don't mean I don't exist, or just 'cause you haven't heard me don't mean I haven't been making noise. But if I keep making noise, you'll pick up.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

I get mail; therefore I am.

To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.

For young boys, just to know you exist in any capacity is a strong feeling.

To be human is to be visible.

I've never really minded being Mrs. Robbie Williams because my ego is relatively small, but it is really nice now that people know there is something else there besides that.

It is no longer important for me to be seen in every frame.

I'm still the same and I don't feel any different but when the elevator doors open and everybody gasps, it's an alienating feeling.

I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.

The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.

It's hard for me to know. I'll think, 'I really brought off my ideas, it's great,' and no one sparks to it

What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?' 'Cats don't have names,' it said. 'No?' said Coraline. 'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.