I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
AIDAN CHAMBERSShe 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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Your weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use 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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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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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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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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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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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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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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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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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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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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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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I cannot live without reading.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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