We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves. — Chris Cleave Exile Copy Share Image
“I do not think I have left my country. I think it has traveled with me” — Chris Cleave Patriotism Copy Share Image
“It was a patient business, talking comets down to the speed of life.” — Chris Cleave Business Copy Share Image
At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on. — Chris Cleave Faces Copy Share Image
“The smile came out like a newborn foal – its legs buckled immediately.” — 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
The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy. — Chris Cleave Asylum seekers Copy Share Image
There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two. — Chris Cleave Difference 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
“If you cannot read the beautiful things that have happened in someone's life, why should you care about their sadness?” — Chris Cleave Beautiful things Copy Share Image
“Once when we stopped to rest, she dug her toes into the earth at the edge of a field and smiled. When… — Chris Cleave Heart Copy Share Image
We must constantly dare ourselves in the small things, until courage becomes a habit of mind that will serve us when we… — Chris Cleave Courage Copy Share Image
“Perhaps this was what it was to grow up: this realization that the world was already staffed with people and that one… — Chris Cleave Realization Copy Share Image
“I did not want to tell her what happened, but I had to now. I could not stop talking because now I… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“Before you bombed my boy Osama I always thought an explosion was such a quick thing but now I know better. The… — 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 Life 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 ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar maker… — Chris Cleave Beauty 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
your culture has become sophisticated, like a computer, or a drug that you take for a headache. You can use it, but… — Chris Cleave Computer 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 Fitness 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
“It was beautiful, and that is a word I would not need to explain to the girls from back home, and I… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
What is an adventure? That depends on where you are starting from. Little girls in your country, they hide in the gap… — Chris Cleave Adventure Copy Share Image
“The planet was filling up with good-looking young worldlings built entirely of opposites, canceling themselves out and- speaking as a bloke- leaving… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“Everyone in my village liked U2," I said. "Everyone in my country, maybe. Wouldn't that be funny, if the oil rebels were… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dess? I though that would be… — Chris Cleave Living life Copy Share Image
“Compromise, eh? Isn't it sad, growing up? You start off like Charlie. You start off thinking you can kill all the baddies… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
It is certainly impossible to imagine forgiving the enemy while their animus remains undefeated. — Chris Cleave Animus Copy Share Image
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“We are a nation of glorious cowards, ready to battle any evil but our own.” Her” — Chris Cleave Cowards Copy Share Image
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