Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
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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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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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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Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don’t do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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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 get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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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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If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
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