People wonder how they are ever going to change their lives, but really it is frighteningly easy. — Chris Cleave Easy Copy Share Image
My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham. — Chris Cleave Ambulance Copy Share Image
“...and I laughed and laughed and laughed until the sound of the sea was drowned.” — Chris Cleave Drowned Copy Share Image
We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us. — Chris Cleave Choose Copy Share Image
“Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living.” — Chris Cleave Life Copy Share Image
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul. — Chris Cleave Fit Copy Share Image
“All you've seen is trouble, so you think trouble is all you're going to get.” — Chris Cleave Trouble 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
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
We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not… — Chris Cleave Beauty Copy Share Image
“Of course the children had exchanged labels with one another the second her back was turned. They were only human, even if… — Chris Cleave Children Copy Share Image
Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't… — Chris Cleave Cry Copy Share Image
The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at… — Chris Cleave Bad day 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
We don't know our hearts until life puts us to the test, and WWII fascinates because it was the last time everyone… — Chris Cleave Heart Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother was in London during the Blitz. Indeed, the man she was dating before she met my grandfather was killed… — Chris Cleave Blitz 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
When I reached Fort Binjemma, for example, where my grandfather was stationed for a while, the whole Victorian fort was decaying. Barbed… — Chris Cleave Ancient 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 Asylum Copy Share Image
Would we be the heroes or the cowards of the piece? Would we follow orders or stick to our principles, if those… — Chris Cleave Brave Copy Share Image
They say that in the hour before an earthquake the clouds hang leaden in the sky, the winds slows to a hot… — Chris Cleave Bird 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
“Putting down the power right from the whistle would be ugly and brutal, but it would get the job done. He wanted… — Chris Cleave Coaching Copy Share Image
“Everyone in my village liked U2," I said. "Everyone in my country, maybe. Wouldn't that be funny, if the oil rebels were… — Chris Cleave Likes U2 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 Sucked 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
“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
“Compromise, eh? Isn't it sad, growing up? You start off like Charlie. You start off thinking you can kill all the baddies… — Chris Cleave Badness 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 Death 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
“How I would love to be a British pound. A pound is free to travel to safety, and we are free to… — Chris Cleave Good man 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 E,D, and C anymore. They go missing when I need them most. Pleased becomes please. Ecstasies becomes stasis.” quote by Chris Cleave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a2e/chris-cleave-1698_left-hand_sarah-has-had-the-middle-finger-of-her-l_1041605.jpg)
