I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
AIDAN CHAMBERSThe most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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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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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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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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I cannot live without reading.
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The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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.
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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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Your weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.
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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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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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