Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
AIDAN CHAMBERSI cannot live without reading.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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Your weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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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 get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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