“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
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others. — Chris Cleave Dare 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
WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory. — Chris Cleave Events 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
“One phone call: I realized it was as simple as that. People wonder how they are ever going to change their lives,… — Chris Cleave Phone call Copy Share Image
Something I am now convinced of, after researching Everyone Brave, is that none of us is born courageous in all respects. — Chris Cleave Born Copy Share Image
“We are a nation of glorious cowards, ready to battle any evil but our own.” Her” — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and… — Chris Cleave Bees 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
“The good days are when you perform; the slow days are when you learn to perform better. The only bad days as… — Chris Cleave Bad day 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
“The smile came out like a newborn foal – its legs buckled immediately.” — Chris Cleave 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
I write in the novel's afterword that our recent wars "finish not with victory or defeat but with a calendar draw-down date… — Chris Cleave Books 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
People wonder how they are ever going to change their lives, but really it is frighteningly easy. — Chris Cleave Easy 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
