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?
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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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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When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.
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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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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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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.
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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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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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