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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSIf you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
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Sometimes 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.
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A joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.
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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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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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I cannot live without reading.
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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows.
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