You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There’s always hope.
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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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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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I don’t actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn’t true it can’t be love.
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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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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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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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