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Dying to Know You Quotes
Dying to Know You
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Aidan Chambers2,502 ratings, 3.55 average rating, 408 reviews
Dying to Know You Quotes
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“Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.”
― Dying to Know You
― Dying to Know You
“However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.”
― Dying to Know You
― Dying to Know You
“She was--I keep using the past tense; I ought to say she is--one of those people who, at first sight, look plain, are quiet, unassertive, unmemorable even. But who, when they start to talk and you get to know them, become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.”
― Dying to Know You
― Dying to Know You
“I don’t actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn’t true it can’t be love.”
― Dying to Know You
― Dying to Know You
“And trust dies from ifs and buts”
― Dying to Know You
― Dying to Know You
“The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.”
― Dying to Know You
― Dying to Know You
“I sometimes wonder whether most people choose their hobbies because they lust after the gear more than for the benefits of the activities themselves.”
― Dying to Know You
― Dying to Know You
“Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.”
― Dying to Know You
― Dying to Know You
“Rooms are a fixed size, which can't be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones. They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who's in them.”
― Dying to Know You
― Dying to Know You
“But the bit I liked best was where it said it's impossible to define love because it takes so many forms and is so complicated.”
― Dying to Know You
― Dying to Know You
“Unfortunately, ..., all too often a joke tells the truth.”
― Dying to Know You
― Dying to Know You
“In all our times together so far, this was the first time I felt we were enjoying ourselves, without strain or any sense of difference of age or deference, concession or inequality. It was, I thought afterwards, the first time we had met as ourselves, untrammelled, unguarded and in tune.”
― Dying to Know You
― Dying to Know You
“when I am talking to myself, whom am I talking to and who is doing the talking? Are we all in fact two people, not one? Are we all One and Another? What I know is that I have an 'everyday self,' the one who does things, says things, deals with the ups and downs of daily life, and another, an 'inner self,' the one I think of as my real self, the self who observes everything my everyday self does and comments and judges, praises and dispraises, considers what would be best to do and not to do, and assesses the results.”
― Dying to Know You
― Dying to Know You
“No, but still, the fact is, at least this is how it seems to me, everybody has to learn about it [love] from scratch for themselves. And we all make the same mistakes time and again while we're learning.”
― Dying to Know You
― Dying to Know You
“It’s like a sleepover, when you feel you can say all kinds of things, because the darkness hides your blushes.”
― Dying to Know You: A Novel
― Dying to Know You: A Novel
