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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSBelief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing 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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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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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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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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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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I cannot live without reading.
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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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