If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious. — Chris Cleave Serious Copy Share Image
I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school. — Chris Cleave Athletic Copy Share Image
“She was whispering into it in some language that sounded like butterflies drowning in honey.” — Chris Cleave Whispering Copy Share Image
“Look at us, won't you? We are nation of glorious cowards, ready to battle any evil but our own.” — Chris Cleave Cowards Copy Share Image
“There are countries of the world, and regions of one's own mind, where it is unwise to travel.” — Chris Cleave Little bee 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'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start… — Chris Cleave Character Copy Share Image
“Perhaps at twenty, one is naturally curious about life, but at thirty, simply suspicious of anyone who still has one.” — Chris Cleave Curious Copy Share Image
“How well it had suited me, that absolute license to march up to evildoers and demand who, what, where, when and why?” — Chris Cleave Journalism 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
I think all of us are intrigued to imagine what we as individuals would become, if we were ever tested as hard… — Chris Cleave Generations 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
“In the quiet of the garden then the robin shook his worm, and swallowed its life from the light into darkness with… — Chris Cleave Darkness Copy Share Image
“I smiled back at Charlie and I knew that the hopes of this whole human world could fit inside one soul. This… — Chris Cleave Globalization Copy Share Image
“The church was stuffed with mourners, of course. No one from work - I tried to keep my life and my magazine… — Chris Cleave Mourners Copy Share Image
“When death comes you do not stay for one minute in the place it has visited. Many things arrive after death-sadness, questions,… — Chris Cleave Death Copy Share Image
“Lawrence frowned. "I don't get you," he said. "If you understood how serious your situation is, I don't think you'd smile." I… — Chris Cleave Frowned Copy Share Image
I was astonished to find that the positions my grandfather had defended were now overgrown and entangled with trees and thorns. I… — Chris Cleave Expected 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
“The idea that Sophie could die had always been there, ever since the first diagnosis, and yet it seemed like a bad… — Chris Cleave Fear Copy Share Image
The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they… — Chris Cleave Anger Copy Share Image
“to her, Do yu know the name of dis place where we is at? But the third girl did not know either.… — Chris Cleave Girl Did 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 Inspirational 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
“...a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. . . We must see all scars… — Chris Cleave Beauty 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
“If this policeman began to suspect me, he could call the immigration people. Then one of them would click a button on… — Chris Cleave Coffee cup Copy Share Image
“In your country, if you are not scared enough already, you can go to watch a horror film... For me and the… — Chris Cleave Horror 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
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves. — Chris Cleave Exile Copy Share Image
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive — Chris Cleave Alive Copy Share Image
“The smile came out like a newborn foal – its legs buckled immediately.” — Chris Cleave Like Newborn Copy Share Image
“Yu can't live if yu dead, neither. Yu probly too smart to get dat.” — Chris Cleave Dead Copy Share Image
At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on. — Chris Cleave Faces 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)
