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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSA 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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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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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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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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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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I cannot live without reading.
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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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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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