And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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I cannot live without reading.
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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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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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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don’t do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss 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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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