Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
AIDAN CHAMBERSRooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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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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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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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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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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I cannot live without reading.
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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 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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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