Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
AIDAN CHAMBERSThe plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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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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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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