If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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 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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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy
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She 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.
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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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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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