There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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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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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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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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say 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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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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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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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I cannot live without reading.
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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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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 thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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