The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
AIDAN CHAMBERSHowever much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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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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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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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 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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself
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I cannot live without reading.
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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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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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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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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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