Aidan Chambers Quotes, Teenage Quotes, Experiencing Everything Quotes

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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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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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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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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I don't actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.

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

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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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She 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, 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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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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I cannot live without reading.

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Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

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All 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. Like just now. Like now. How is it possible? Can you love someone more and more and at the same time, all the time, love them as much as it's possible to love someone?

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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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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.

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

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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.

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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts

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