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 CHAMBERSIf 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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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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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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I cannot live without reading.
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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 thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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Your weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.
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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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