“I do not know why the mind chooses these small things to break itself on.” — Chris Cleave Mind Copy Share Image
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
“We are a nation of glorious cowards, ready to battle any evil but our own.” Her” — Chris Cleave Cowards Copy Share Image
It is certainly impossible to imagine forgiving the enemy while their animus remains undefeated. — Chris Cleave Animus 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 the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore.… — Chris Cleave Athlete Copy Share Image
That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future… — Chris Cleave Happily 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
“[...] waiting for our lives to converge onto the precise fault line at which our past could be cleaved from our future… — Chris Cleave Time 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
We're often told that we live in a globalized world, and we talk about it all the time, but people don't stop… — Chris Cleave Mean 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
“Truly, this is the one thing that people from your country and people from my country agree on. They say, That refugee… — Chris Cleave Immigration 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
“I looked around me at the beautiful sunrise and I was thinking, Yes, yes, everything will be beautiful like this now. I… — Chris Cleave Another day Copy Share Image
“You will laugh at me-silly village girl-for staring at an ice cube like this. You will laugh, but this was the first… — Chris Cleave First time 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
Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you… — Chris Cleave Ends Copy Share Image
We no longer need to show people being brave: instead, we can examine how they became brave. We can assume that they… — Chris Cleave Assuming 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
“We never tasted tea in my village, even though they grow it in the east of my country, where the land rises… — Chris Cleave Coffee 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 Coffee Copy Share Image
“Without light, how can you keep the sight of the eyes? Without a future, how can you preserve the government? [...] We… — Chris Cleave Late afternoon Copy Share Image
“Competing in an Olympics didn't scare her now. The thought of stepping up into the full roar of the crowd, in London,… — Chris Cleave Frightened Copy Share Image
“It was beautiful, and that is a word I would not need to explain to the girls from back home, and I… — Chris Cleave Beautiful word Copy Share Image
“I ask you right here to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what scar makers want us… — Chris Cleave Beauty 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
“So, I am a refugee, and I get very lonely. Is it my fault if I do not look like an English… — Chris Cleave Immigration Copy Share Image
“Peace is a time when people can tell each other their real names” — Chris Cleave Names Copy Share Image
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