There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
AIDAN CHAMBERSShe 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows.
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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