There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
AIDAN CHAMBERS
They 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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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Your weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.
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The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself
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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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