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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSWhen 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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I don’t actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn’t true it can’t be love.
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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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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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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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A joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.
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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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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