I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
AIDAN CHAMBERSAnd trust dies from ifs and buts
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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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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