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 CHAMBERSThey should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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Become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.
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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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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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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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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