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.
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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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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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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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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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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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I cannot live without reading.
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