“In all our times together so far, this was the first time I felt we were enjoying ourselves, without strain or any sense of difference of age or deference, concession or inequality. It was, I thought afterwards, the first time… — 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
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
“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
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it. — Aidan Chambers Copy Share
I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well. — Aidan Chambers Copy Share
Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are. — Aidan Chambers Copy Share
History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past. — Aidan Chambers Copy Share
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
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
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
“No, but still, the fact is, at least this is how it seems to me, everybody has to learn about it [love] from scratch… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share
