I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and… — Chris Cleave Bees 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 Current affairs Copy Share Image
“With this girl – girl three in the queue – her story had made her so sad that she did not know… — Chris Cleave 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
“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
Our own personal brand of courage - in relationships, in conflict, in our principles - is as unique as our fingerprints. — 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 Sad words 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
“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
“You will laugh at me-silly village girl-for staring at an ice cube like this. You will laugh, but this was the first… — 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 Action Copy Share Image
“The only reason we were married in such haste was that my mother begged me not to marry Andrew at all. One… — Chris Cleave Marriage Copy Share Image
“I looked around me at the beautiful sunrise and I was thinking, Yes, yes, everything will be beautiful like this now. I… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“Truly, this is the one thing that people from your country and people from my country agree on. They say, That refugee… — Chris Cleave Immigration 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
“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
I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start… — Chris Cleave Character Copy Share Image
“A scar is never ugly. We must see all scars as beauty. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar… — Chris Cleave Beauty Copy Share Image
“How to explain... that the warning signs were so slight ? That disaster, when it is quite sure of its own strength,… — Chris Cleave Warning signs 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
“[...] waiting for our lives to converge onto the precise fault line at which our past could be cleaved from our future… — Chris Cleave Time Copy Share Image
It was the month of May and there was warm sunshine dripping through the holes between the clouds, like the sky was… — Chris Cleave Blue 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
“How I would love to be a British pound. A pound is free to travel to safety and we are free to… — 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 Generations 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
“How well it had suited me, that absolute license to march up to evildoers and demand who, what, where, when and why?” — Chris Cleave Journalism 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
“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 Life Copy Share Image
“Of course the children had exchanged labels with one another the second her back was turned. They were only human, even if… — Chris Cleave Children Copy Share Image
We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not… — Chris Cleave Beauty Copy Share Image
Sometimes we don't notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us. — Chris Cleave Brave 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 Heart Copy Share Image
“If I was telling this story to the girls from back home, I would have to explain to them how it was… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't… — Chris Cleave Cry Copy Share Image
The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at… — Chris Cleave Bad day Copy Share Image
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