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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSAs someone who knows her mind and who I envy for that. As someone who is strong in herself without seeming to need anyone else to help her. As someone who makes me thinks and unsettles me in a way that makes me feel more alive.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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Become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.
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Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it.
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Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
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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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