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 CHAMBERSI thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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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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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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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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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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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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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as ‘facts.’ Yes, I know that in this case one ‘fact’ was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a ‘fact,’ and act on it as if it were true.
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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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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 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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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 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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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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