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Aidan Chambers is a British author of children's and young-adult novels. He won both the British Carnegie Medal and the American Printz Award for Postcards from No Man's Land . For his "lasting contribution to children's literature" he won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. December 1934
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Postcards from No Man's Land
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Famous Aidan Chambers Quotes

“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

Source: Dying to Know You

“Doing anything when you're bored is veryboring. Anyway, isof being bored. Theof being bored isand”

Aidan Chambers

Source: This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn

“Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.”

Aidan Chambers

Source: Dying to Know You

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

Aidan Chambers book Postcards from No Man's Land

Source: Postcards from No Man's Land

“There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.”

Aidan Chambers

Source: This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn

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