The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
AIDAN CHAMBERSI 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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I cannot live without reading.
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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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Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don’t do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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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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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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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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