Aidan Chambers Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes, Giving Quotes

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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Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it. I don't write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.

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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.

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

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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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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 have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope.

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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.

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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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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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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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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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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. The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.

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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?

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And trust dies from ifs and buts

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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.

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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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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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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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