Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“He reached out a hand behind the headrest of his seat and Kate took it, and they squeezed. The pressure created a… — 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
At this point in time the war [ WWII] is close enough to still feel hotly personal to a writer, yet far… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Courage is a muscle that develops through use. It's no use waiting for some inner fire to conveniently become apparent at the… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
The future looks like gasoline. . . . crude oil . . . is the future before it has been refined. It… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“... Sometimes -- in the rare moments when she wasn't causing quite serious mental discomfort -- being friends with Zoe was like… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
In a few breaths' time I will speak some sad words to you. But you must hear them the same way we… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“He wouldn't give up, but if i am strict and force myself now to decide upon the precise moment in this whole… — 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
“Without light, how can you keep the sight of the eyes? Without a future, how can you preserve the government? [...] We… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“[...] waiting for our lives to converge onto the precise fault line at which our past could be cleaved from our future… — 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
That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“Putting down the power right from the whistle would be ugly and brutal, but it would get the job done. He wanted… — 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
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![“Without light, how can you keep the sight of the eyes? Without a future, how can you preserve the government? [...] We could have a most dilligent Home Secretary of Lunchtime. We could have an excellent Prime Minister of the Quietest Part of the Late Afternoon. But when twilight comes -do you…” quote by Chris Cleave](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3f2/chris-cleave-1698_late-afternoon_without-light-how-can-you-keep-the-sight_1839695.png)
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