However long the moon disappears, someday it must shine again. — Chris Cleave Disappear Copy Share Image
Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs. — Chris Cleave Affair Copy Share Image
“I do not know why the mind chooses these small things to break itself on.” — Chris Cleave Mind Copy Share Image
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul. — Chris Cleave Fit 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
“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
“You're not asking for input. You are asking your admirer's to prove they are paying attention.” — Chris Cleave Acceptance-of-oneself Copy Share Image
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others. — Chris Cleave Dare Copy Share Image
“I do not think I have left my country. I think it has traveled with me” — Chris Cleave Patriotism 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 Clouds 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 Pound 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
“If I was telling this story to the girls from back home, I would have to explain to them how it was… — Chris Cleave Drowning 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
I do think it is harder to acknowledge our strengths, or to forgive ourselves and each other for our shortcomings, when there… — Chris Cleave Acknowledge 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
“Every bitter joule of rage had been converted into speed. She was empty. There was no pain. The air whistled past her… — Chris Cleave Mercy Copy Share Image
“Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dess? I though that would be… — Chris Cleave Living life Copy Share Image
“Isn't it sad, growing up? You start off like my Charlie. You start off thinking you can kill all the baddies and… — Chris Cleave Badness Copy Share Image
“Tea is the tast of my land:it is bitter and warm,strong,and sharp with memory.It tastes of longing.It tastes of the distance between… — Chris Cleave Tea Copy Share Image
“He felt good for once, he really did. Maybe the deal was that life had to break your body down before you… — Chris Cleave Life 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 Acknowledge 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 Beauty 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 Death Copy Share Image
“I'm going to write to you about the emptiness that was left when you took my boy away. I'm going to write… — Chris Cleave Emptiness Copy Share Image
What is an adventure? That depends on where you are starting from. Little girls in your country, they hide in the gap… — Chris Cleave Adventure Copy Share Image
“The planet was filling up with good-looking young worldlings built entirely of opposites, canceling themselves out and- speaking as a bloke- leaving… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I think my ideal man would speak many languages. He would speak Ibo and Yoruba and English and French and all of… — Chris Cleave Beautiful 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… — Chris Cleave Life Copy Share Image
On the girl's brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you,… — Chris Cleave Agree Copy Share Image
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive — Chris Cleave Alive Copy Share Image
Yet war doesn't end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation. — Chris Cleave Armistice Copy Share Image
Something I am now convinced of, after researching Everyone Brave, is that none of us is born courageous in all respects. — Chris Cleave Born Copy Share Image
WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory. — Chris Cleave Events 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)] death will come chasing. In your world [(the West)] it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself.' 'We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? ... A scar does not…” quote by Chris Cleave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e64/chris-cleave-1698_death_death-is-where-you-run-to-when-none-of-t_677842.jpg)
