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
AIDAN CHAMBERSSelf pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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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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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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