Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
AIDAN CHAMBERSThe plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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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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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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