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. — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
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. — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't. — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
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… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
“I don't know, I can't quite get it." "Don't try. It's just words." " Just words?" "Just words! We love them so much, you… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it. — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well. — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are. — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past. — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
How do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but "older," if that makes… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
