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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSThe 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
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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I cannot live without reading.
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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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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 most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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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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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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