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 CHAMBERSThere are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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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 cannot live without reading.
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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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