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
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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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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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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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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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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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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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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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