“What a need we humans have for confession. To a priest, to a friend, to a psychoanalyst, to a relative, to an enemy, even to a torturer when there is no one else, it doesn't matter so long as we… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
“It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day Is fairer far… — 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
