If your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life, smile and pretend to be a fat man. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
The ways in which we are able to express courage also depend on the hand life deals us. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“It was a patient business, talking comets down to the speed of life.” — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living.” — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
There was no quick grief for Andrew because he had been so slowly lost. First from my heart, then from my mind,… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“I do not think you are wrong for living the life you were born in. A dog must be a dog and… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“In the quiet of the garden then the robin shook his worm, and swallowed its life from the light into darkness with… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“Nkiruka loved music, and now I saw that she was right because life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
We don't know our hearts until life puts us to the test, and WWII fascinates because it was the last time everyone… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“Yu only be livin one life, darlin. Don't matter yu don't uh-preshie-ate part of it, cos it don't stop bein part of… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“I'm going to write to you about the emptiness that was left when you took my boy away. I'm going to write… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“He really had experienced every tiniest increment of time in the four decades since then, and yet here he was surprised to… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“He felt good for once, he really did. Maybe the deal was that life had to break your body down before you… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“LIFE is a big word, isn't it? Let's break it down into small segments. Let's find a level of granularity we can… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“I smiled down at Charlie, and I understood that he would be free now even if I would not. In this way… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“Her life was one endless loop that she raced around, with steep banked curves so she could never change or slow down.… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“Perhaps at twenty, one is naturally curious about life, but at thirty, simply suspicious of anyone who still has one.” — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that… — Chris Cleave Copy Share
This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other… — Chris Cleave Copy Share
In a few breaths' time I will speak some sad words to you. But you must hear them the same way we have agreed… — Chris Cleave Copy Share
Wouldn't that be funny, if the oil rebels were playing U2 in their jungle camps, and the government soldiers were playing U2 in their… — Chris Cleave Copy Share
“When death comes you do not stay for one minute in the place it has visited. Many things arrive after death-sadness, questions, and policemen-… — Chris Cleave Copy Share
“I smiled down at Charlie, and I understood that he would be free now even if I would not. In this way the life… — Chris Cleave Copy Share
I do think it is harder to acknowledge our strengths, or to forgive ourselves and each other for our shortcomings, when there has not… — Chris Cleave Copy Share
I think the recent cluster of WWII novels is so good because we have reached an optimal distance from the war. Just as a… — Chris Cleave Copy Share
“Yu only be livin one life, darlin. Don't matter yu don't uh-preshie-ate part of it, cos it don't stop bein part of yu.” — Chris Cleave Copy Share
Sometimes we don't notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us. — Chris Cleave Copy Share
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to… — Chris Cleave Copy Share
“If I was telling this story to the girls from back home, I would have to explain to them how it was possible to… — Chris Cleave Copy Share
