Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as ‘facts.’ Yes, I know that in this case one ‘fact’ was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a ‘fact,’ and act on it as if it were true.
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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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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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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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