Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
AIDAN CHAMBERSThe 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
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Like just now. Like now. How is it possible? Can you love someone more and more and at the same time, all the time, love them as much as it’s possible to love someone?
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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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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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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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