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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSI cannot live without reading.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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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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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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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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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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