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
AIDAN CHAMBERSThe books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There’s always hope.
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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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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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I cannot live without reading.
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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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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself
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