Aidan Chambers Quotes, Facts Quotes, Sometimes Quotes

The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.

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Rooms are a fixed size, which can't be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones. They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who's in them.

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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.

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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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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. 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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.

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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts

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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.

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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

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There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.

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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. 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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

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Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.

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