“[...] 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
“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
When I reached Fort Binjemma, for example, where my grandfather was stationed for a while, the whole Victorian fort was decaying. Barbed… — Chris Cleave Ancient 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 Antithesis Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother was in London during the Blitz. Indeed, the man she was dating before she met my grandfather was killed… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
We no longer need to show people being brave: instead, we can examine how they became brave. We can assume that they… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“The church was stuffed with mourners, of course. No one from work - I tried to keep my life and my magazine… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Is it my fault if I do not look like an English girl and I do not talk like a Nigerian? Well,… — 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
“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
“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
Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image