The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
AIDAN CHAMBERSI 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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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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Yet, isn’t it strange, isn’t it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is!
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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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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