Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
AIDAN CHAMBERSBecome 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.
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I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they’re just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.
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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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I cannot live without reading.
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A joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.
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Yet, isn’t it strange, isn’t it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is!
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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If a boy, if a man, asks you if you’re all right and you say yes, he’ll always believe you and get on with what he wants to do. It’s just the way they’re made.
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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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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.
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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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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.
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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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