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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSDoing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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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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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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