Aidan Chambers Quotes

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

You have to lose yourself to find yourself.

Identity has been such an explosive territory for me... so hard, so painful at times.

I don't know who I am. Or maybe I do know who I am and I just don't want to be her anymore.

I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

It took me a while to find myself.

One of my problems is to find the self.

One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

It feels weird to say there's more to me than that, like I'm being overdramatic, and a tear rolls down my cheek. But, no - I do like I feel like there's more to me than just baseball.

I have always felt like I was just sort of waiting to catch up to the rest of myself.

I don't know how happy I was when I met Sting. I always had this difficulty of not really knowing who I was.

I'm not even sure who I really am sometimes.

I think I spent a lot of my mid-twenties thinking it was a problem of my onstage persona. But, actually, it was my actual personality. I was still working out what kind of person I was.

When I look in the mirror, I see an ever-unfolding process.

I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.

What are we taking from people and what do we give is a life-long struggle, I think, for most of us. Who are we? Do we like who we are? Do we know who we are? Do we care? Does anyone care? That's such a big topic. I could tackle that in many movies. So could other people.

You've decided to love me for eternity, I'm still deciding who I want to be today.

The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.

I've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become.

...fact was she knew more about them than she knew about herself, having never had the map to discover what she was like. Could she sing? (Was it nice to hear when she did?) Was she pretty? Was she a good friend? Could she have been a loving mother? A faithful wife? Have I got a sister and does she favor me? If my mother knew me would she like me? (140)

I don't know who I am. But I do know who I'm not. I have occasionally tried playing people I'm definitely not, and that wasn't a very pleasant experience.

I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?

Some people spend their whole lives looking for themselves, yet our self is the one thing we surely cannot lose (how like a cheap philosopher I am become, staying in this benighted place). From the moment we are conceived it is the pattern in our blood and our bones are printed through with it like sticks of seaside rock. Nora, on the other hand, says that she’s surprised anyone knows who they are, considering that every cell and molecule in our bodies has been replaced many times over since we were born.