Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
AIDAN CHAMBERSReaders are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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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 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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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