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.

- Aidan Chambers

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 le…

- Aidan Chambers

You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.

- Aidan Chambers

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 …

- Aidan Chambers

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

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 …

- Aidan Chambers

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

- Aidan Chambers

The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.

- Aidan Chambers

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

- Aidan Chambers