Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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Become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.
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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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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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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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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in 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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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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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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 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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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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I cannot live without reading.
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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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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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