Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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I cannot live without reading.
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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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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Yet, isn’t it strange, isn’t it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is!
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All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and I love you more than ever.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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