There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
AIDAN CHAMBERSI thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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.
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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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She was–I keep using the past tense; I ought to say she is–one of those people who, at first sight, look plain, are quiet, unassertive, unmemorable even. But who, when they start to talk and you get to know them.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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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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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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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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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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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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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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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