Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
AIDAN CHAMBERSFame, 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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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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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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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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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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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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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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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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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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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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