However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
AIDAN CHAMBERSIf you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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How do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but “older,” if that makes sense. As someone I like to look at, not just because you’re good to look at, but because just looking at you makes me smile and feel happier.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
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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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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Like just now. Like now. How is it possible? Can you love someone more and more and at the same time, all the time, love them as much as it’s possible to love someone?
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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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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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