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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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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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. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.

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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 plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.

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

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

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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 thought how lovely and how strange a river is.

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

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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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The demons of the Devil don't use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones. If you're rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you're loyal and faithful, they turn those against you. If you're passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears. Your weak weaknesses are no use to them.... They find the strongest weaknesses you didn't know were yours and use those against you.

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

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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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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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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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