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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSLife is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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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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I cannot live without reading.
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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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