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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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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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How do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but “older,” if that makes sense. As someone I like to look at, not just because you’re good to look at, but because just looking at you makes me smile and feel happier.
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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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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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A joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.
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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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