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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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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Become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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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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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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