Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
AIDAN CHAMBERSAs 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as ‘facts.’ Yes, I know that in this case one ‘fact’ was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a ‘fact,’ and act on it as if it were true.
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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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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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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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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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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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