And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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I cannot live without reading.
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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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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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