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
“A scar is never ugly. We must see all scars as beauty. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar… — Chris Cleave Beauty 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
My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham. — Chris Cleave Ambulance 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
“...and I laughed and laughed and laughed until the sound of the sea was drowned.” — Chris Cleave Drowned Copy Share Image
People wonder how they are ever going to change their lives, but really it is frighteningly easy. — Chris Cleave Easy 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
It was the month of May and there was warm sunshine dripping through the holes between the clouds, like the sky was… — Chris Cleave Blue 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
“[Sarah has had the middle finger of her left hand amputated] and she says that when she types: I can't rely on… — Chris Cleave Left hand 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
“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
“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
It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and… — Chris Cleave Accepting 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
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
“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 Inspirational Copy Share Image