Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
AIDAN CHAMBERSIf you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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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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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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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 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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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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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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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