“Look at us, won't you? We are nation of glorious cowards, ready to battle any evil but our own.” — Chris Cleave Cowards Copy Share Image
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“You're not asking for input. You are asking your admirer's to prove they are paying attention.” — Chris Cleave Acceptance-of-oneself Copy Share Image
“There are countries of the world, and regions of one's own mind, where it is unwise to travel.” — Chris Cleave Little bee Copy Share Image
“She was whispering into it in some language that sounded like butterflies drowning in honey.” — Chris Cleave Whispering 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
“...and I laughed and laughed and laughed until the sound of the sea was drowned.” — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“There’s eight million people here pretending the others aren’t getting on their nerves. I believe it’s called civilization.” — Chris Cleave Civilization 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 Death 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
“A pound coin can go wherever it thinks it will be safest. ... It can disguise itself as power or property and… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“It was depression that killed Andrew, of course - depression and guilt. But my son didn't believe in death, let alone in… — Chris Cleave Death 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 Life Copy Share Image
Everyone carries the weight of WWII with them in their recent family history, and yet it is rarely spoken about within families,… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it. — Chris Cleave Country Copy Share Image
“Lawrence frowned. "I don't get you," he said. "If you understood how serious your situation is, I don't think you'd smile." I… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“When death comes you do not stay for one minute in the place it has visited. Many things arrive after death-sadness, questions,… — Chris Cleave Death Copy Share Image
I was astonished to find that the positions my grandfather had defended were now overgrown and entangled with trees and thorns. I… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“Every bitter joule of rage had been converted into speed. She was empty. There was no pain. The air whistled past her… — Chris Cleave Mercy Copy Share Image
“to her, Do yu know the name of dis place where we is at? But the third girl did not know either.… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will… — Chris Cleave Alive Copy Share Image
“because this is how it was with them: the boy’s father had dark skin, darker even than my own, and the boy’s… — Chris Cleave Dark skin Copy Share Image
I wanted to look at the differences between how we fought then and how we fight now, because the current lack of… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
People wonder how they are ever going to change their lives, but really it is frighteningly easy. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs. — Chris Cleave Affair Copy Share Image
“Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living.” — Chris Cleave Life Copy Share Image
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“I do not know why the mind chooses these small things to break itself on.” — Chris Cleave Mind Copy Share Image
“All you've seen is trouble, so you think trouble is all you're going to get.” — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“It turned out that the only difference between children and adults was that children were prepared to put twice the energy into… — Chris Cleave Child Copy Share Image
You travel here and you travel there, trying to get out from under the cloud, and nothing works, and then one day… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“The mourners clustered around the edge of the grave, paralyzed by the horror of this thing, this first discovery of death that… — Chris Cleave Death 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 Darkness Copy Share Image
“I smiled back at Charlie and I knew that the hopes of this whole human world could fit inside one soul. This… — Chris Cleave Globalization Copy Share Image
