The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
AIDAN CHAMBERSSometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don’t do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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Yet, isn’t it strange, isn’t it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is!
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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 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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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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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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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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