There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
AIDAN CHAMBERSIf 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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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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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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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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I cannot live without reading.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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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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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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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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