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 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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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There’s always hope.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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I cannot live without reading.
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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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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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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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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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