We resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.
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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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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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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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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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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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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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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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