Heart Quotes by Chris Cleave

9 Heart quotes by Chris Cleave

Cleave’s prose slices to the core, each line a precise look at the heart’s delicate balance. Though brief, the collection feels like a sharp yet tender mirror.

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“Once when we stopped to rest, she dug her toes into the earth at the edge of a field and smiled. When…

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There was no quick grief for Andrew because he had been so slowly lost. First from my heart, then from my mind,…

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We don't know our hearts until life puts us to the test, and WWII fascinates because it was the last time everyone…

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“Her life was one endless loop that she raced around, with steep banked curves so she could never change or slow down.…

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“... Sometimes -- in the rare moments when she wasn't causing quite serious mental discomfort -- being friends with Zoe was like…

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“Off the bike she was like a smoker without cigarettes, never sure what to do with her hands. As soon as she…

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I think my ideal man would speak many languages. He would speak Ibo and Yoruba and English and French and all of…

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What is an adventure? That depends on where you are starting from. Little girls in your country, they hide in the gap…

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“Competing in an Olympics didn't scare her now. The thought of stepping up into the full roar of the crowd, in London,…

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“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-…

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“I smiled down at Charlie, and I understood that he would be free now even if I would not. In this way the life…

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I do think it is harder to acknowledge our strengths, or to forgive ourselves and each other for our shortcomings, when there has not…

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I think the recent cluster of WWII novels is so good because we have reached an optimal distance from the war. Just as a…

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“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.”

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Sometimes we don't notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us.

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Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.

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Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to…

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“If I was telling this story to the girls from back home, I would have to explain to them how it was possible to…

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“April showers bring May flower”

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