However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
AIDAN CHAMBERSRooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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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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