We resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.
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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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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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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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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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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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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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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The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy
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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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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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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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You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There’s always hope.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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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 demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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