You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
AIDAN CHAMBERSLike 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?
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as ‘facts.’ Yes, I know that in this case one ‘fact’ was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a ‘fact,’ and act on it as if it were true.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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If a boy, if a man, asks you if you’re all right and you say yes, he’ll always believe you and get on with what he wants to do. It’s just the way they’re made.
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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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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy
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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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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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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