If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore.… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I do think it is harder to acknowledge our strengths, or to forgive ourselves and each other for our shortcomings, when there… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I think all of us are intrigued to imagine what we as individuals would become, if we were ever tested as hard… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I think the recent cluster of WWII novels is so good because we have reached an optimal distance from the war. Just… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
We're often told that we live in a globalized world, and we talk about it all the time, but people don't stop… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
You may think that's funny Osama but you never can squeeze every last bit of pride out of a human being. It's… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Wouldn't that be funny, if the oil rebels were playing U2 in their jungle camps, and the government soldiers were playing U2… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
On our honeymoon we talked and talked. We stayed in a beachfront villa, and we drank rum and lemonade and talked so… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I do think it is harder to acknowledge our strengths, or to forgive ourselves and each other for our shortcomings, when there… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
On the girl's brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you,… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I think my ideal man would speak many languages. He would speak Ibo and Yoruba and English and French and all of… — 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
