The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
AIDAN CHAMBERSEven if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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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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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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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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As 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.
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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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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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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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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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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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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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new 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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