Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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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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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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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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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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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I don’t actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn’t true it can’t be love.
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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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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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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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If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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I cannot live without reading.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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The 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
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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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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