I cannot live without reading.
AIDAN CHAMBERSThere are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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How do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but “older,” if that makes sense. As someone I like to look at, not just because you’re good to look at, but because just looking at you makes me smile and feel happier.
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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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I don’t actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn’t true it can’t be love.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don’t do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it.
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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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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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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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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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