Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
AIDAN CHAMBERSThere are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
-
-
I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
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 CHAMBERS -
Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
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.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
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.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
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.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
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.
AIDAN CHAMBERS -
There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
AIDAN CHAMBERS






