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
AIDAN CHAMBERSHowever much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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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 don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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