Aidan Chambers Quotes

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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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  Opportunity, Missing, Chance

  Aidan Chambers (2012). “Dying to Know You”, p.189, Abrams

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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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  Being Yourself, Giving, Should

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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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  Life Is, Novel

  Aidan Chambers (2012). “Dying to Know You”, p.96, Abrams

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

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  Made, Obvious, Reader

  "Shock tactics" by Alison Brace, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2000.

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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?

  Aidan Chambers

  I Love You More, Thinking, Time Love

  Aidan Chambers (2010). “This Is All”, p.762, Random House

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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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  Strong, Emotional, Loyal And Faithful

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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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  Past, Path, Made

  Aidan Chambers (2010). “This Is All”, p.147, Random House

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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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  World, Consciousness, Form

  "Shock tactics" by Alison Brace, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2000.

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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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  Love Is, Thinking, Being True

  Aidan Chambers (2012). “Dying to Know You”, p.43, Abrams

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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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  Crush, Real, Being In Love

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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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  Want, Know Yourself, Knows

  Aidan Chambers (2010). “This Is All”, p.487, Random House

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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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  Strong, Thinking, Envy

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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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  Teenage, Experiencing Everything, Years

  "Shock tactics" by Alison Brace, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2000.

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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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  Facts, Accused, Resent

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• And trust dies from ifs and buts

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  Ifs And, Dies, Ifs

  Aidan Chambers (2012). “Dying to Know You”, p.126, Random House

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

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  Self, Doe, Disease

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

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  Flow

  Aidan Chambers (1999). “Postcards from No Man's Land: A Novel”, Random House (UK)

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

  Aidan Chambers

  Reading, Literature, Reader

  "Shock tactics" by Alison Brace, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2000.

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• I cannot live without reading.

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  Reading

  Aidan Chambers (2010). “This Is All”, p.562, Random House

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• I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.

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  Rivers, Lovely, Strange

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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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  Thinking, People, Important

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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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  Believe, Boys, Men

  Aidan Chambers (2010). “This Is All”, p.367, Random House

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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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  Knowing, Sometimes, Difficult

  Aidan Chambers (2004). “Postcards from No Man's Land”

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• Yet, isn't it strange, isn't it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is! How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as 'facts.' Yes, I know that in this case one 'fact' was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a 'fact,' and act on it as if it were true.

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  Clever, Two, Mind

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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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  Names, Alive, Speak

  Aidan Chambers (2010). “Now I Know”, p.34, Random House

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