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?
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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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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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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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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and I love you more than ever.
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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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We resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.
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Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows.
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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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