Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
AIDAN CHAMBERSYour weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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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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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There’s always hope.
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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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