Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
AIDAN CHAMBERSAnd the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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 thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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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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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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