Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
AIDAN CHAMBERSI thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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Yet, isn’t it strange, isn’t it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is!
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
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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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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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