“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 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 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
“Death is 'where you run to when none of the principalities of your conscience will grant you asylum.' ....'In my world [(Africa)]… — Chris Cleave 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 Copy Share Image
“I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers… — Chris Cleave 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 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 Copy Share Image
In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“...a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. . . We must see all scars… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“I ask you right here to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what scar makers want us… — 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 Copy Share Image
Death, of course, is a refuge. It's where you go when a new name, or a mask and cape, can no longer… — Chris Cleave 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 Copy Share Image
“They found my husband with his feet treading empty air, touching the soil of no country. Death, of course, is a refuge.… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“But that is the way with killers, I suppose. What is the end of all innocence for you is just another Tuesday… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 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 yu.” — Chris Cleave 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 Copy Share Image
