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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSThe most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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 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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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I don’t actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn’t true it can’t be love.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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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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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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