I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
AIDAN CHAMBERSHistory dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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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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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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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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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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