I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
AIDAN CHAMBERSAll the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and I love you more than ever.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy
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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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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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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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