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
“Her life was one endless loop that she raced around, with steep banked curves so she could never change or slow down.… — Chris Cleave Avoidance Copy Share Image
“How to explain... that the warning signs were so slight ? That disaster, when it is quite sure of its own strength,… — Chris Cleave Warning signs 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
However long the moon disappears, someday it must shine again. — Chris Cleave Disappear Copy Share Image
“For me and the girls from my village, horror is a disease and we are sick with it. It is not an… — Chris Cleave Horror Copy Share Image
“I do not know why the mind chooses these small things to break itself on.” — Chris Cleave Psychology 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 Little bee 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 Empty life 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 Copy Share Image
It is easier for a rich person to act on their principles than it is for someone with fewer choices (which is… — Chris Cleave Choices Copy Share Image
“... Sometimes -- in the rare moments when she wasn't causing quite serious mental discomfort -- being friends with Zoe was like… — Chris Cleave Friendship 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
“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
“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
A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the… — Chris Cleave Death Copy Share Image
“Before you bombed my boy Osama I always thought an explosion was such a quick thing but now I know better. The… — Chris Cleave Thought provoking 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
“He really had experienced every tiniest increment of time in the four decades since then, and yet here he was surprised to… — Chris Cleave Age 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 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
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
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul. — Chris Cleave Fit Copy Share Image
