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title: "2 Forts Quotes By Chris Cleave"
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> [I was astonished to find that the positions my grandfather had defended were now overgrown and entangled with trees and thorns. I suppose I had developed a sense of reverence for the locations he described in his memoirs and letters…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-cleave/i-was-astonished-to-find-that-the-positions-my-grandfather-had/)

[Chris Cleave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-cleave/)

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> [When I reached Fort Binjemma, for example, where my grandfather was stationed for a while, the whole Victorian fort was decaying. Barbed wire surrounded it, spray paint on the ancient walls claimed it as private property, and the moat where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-cleave/when-i-reached-fort-binjemma-for-example-where-my-grandfather-was/)

[Chris Cleave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-cleave/)

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## More by Chris Cleave

> [It was hard not to be full of hope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-cleave/it-was-hard-not-to-be-full-of-hope/)

[Chris Cleave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-cleave/)

> [I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-cleave/i-like-to-push-characters-to-extremes-so-they-have-to-make-really/)

[Chris Cleave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-cleave/)

> [This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-cleave/this-is-the-forked-tongue-of-grief-again-it-whispers-in-one-ear/)

[Chris Cleave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-cleave/)

> [In a few breaths' time I will speak some sad words to you. But you must hear them the same way we have agreed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-cleave/in-a-few-breaths-time-i-will-speak-some-sad-words-to-you-but-you-must/)

[Chris Cleave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-cleave/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-cleave/wouldn-t-that-be-funny-if-the-oil-rebels-were-playing-u2-in-their/)

[Chris Cleave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-cleave/)

> [“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-…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-cleave/when-death-comes-you-do-not-stay-for-one-minute-in-the-place-it-has/)

[Chris Cleave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-cleave/)

> [“I smiled down at Charlie, and I understood that he would be free now even if I would not. In this way the life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-cleave/i-smiled-down-at-charlie-and-i-understood-that-he-would-be-free-now/)

[Chris Cleave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-cleave/)

> [I do think it is harder to acknowledge our strengths, or to forgive ourselves and each other for our shortcomings, when there has not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-cleave/i-do-think-it-is-harder-to-acknowledge-our-strengths-or-to-forgive/)

[Chris Cleave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-cleave/)

> [I think the recent cluster of WWII novels is so good because we have reached an optimal distance from the war. Just as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-cleave/i-think-the-recent-cluster-of-wwii-novels-is-so-good-because-we-have/)

[Chris Cleave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-cleave/)

> [“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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-cleave/yu-only-be-livin-one-life-darlin-don-t-matter-yu-don-t-uh-preshie-ate/)

[Chris Cleave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-cleave/)

> [Sometimes we don't notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-cleave/sometimes-we-don-t-notice-that-someone-is-being-brave-because-they/)

[Chris Cleave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-cleave/)

> [Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-cleave/life-is-extremely-short-and-you-cannot-dance-to-current-affairs/)

[Chris Cleave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-cleave/)

> [Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-cleave/sad-words-are-just-another-beauty-a-sad-story-means-this-storyteller/)

[Chris Cleave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-cleave/)

> [“If I was telling this story to the girls from back home, I would have to explain to them how it was possible to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-cleave/if-i-was-telling-this-story-to-the-girls-from-back-home-i-would-have/)

[Chris Cleave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-cleave/)

> [“April showers bring May flower”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-cleave/april-showers-bring-may-flower/)

[Chris Cleave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-cleave/)

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