And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
AIDAN CHAMBERSThe pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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 thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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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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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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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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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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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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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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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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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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We resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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Your weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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