Quotes by Aidan Chambers

Aidan Chambers

a joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.

Hurt

Joy

Sadness

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

Pay

Should

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.

Alive

Names

Speak

Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.

Giving

Mean

Thinking

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.

Bored

Boring

Doing Nothing

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.

Book

People

Writing

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

Difficult

Knowing

Sometimes

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.

Envy

Strong

Thinking

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.

Being Yourself

Giving

Should

I cannot live without reading.

Reading

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Alive

Beautiful

Being In Love

Being True

Being Yourself

Believe

Book

Bored

Boring

Boys

Chance

Clever

Consciousness

Crush

Difficult

Disease

Doe

Doing Nothing

Emotional

Envy

Experiencing Everything

Facts

Flow

Form

Giving

Hurt

Important

Joy

Know Yourself

Knowing

Knows

Love Is

Loyal And Faithful

Made

Matter

Mean

Men

Mind

Missing

Names

Needs

Obvious

Opportunity

Pages

Past

Pay

People

Puff

Reader

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Quotes by Aidan Chambers

Aidan Chambers

a joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.

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

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.

Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.

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.

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.

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

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.

I cannot live without reading.

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