“...and I laughed and laughed and laughed until the sound of the sea was drowned.” — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I wanted to look at the differences between how we fought then and how we fight now, because the current lack of… — Chris Cleave Acknowledge Copy Share Image
“Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it. For… — Chris Cleave Fear Copy Share Image
your culture has become sophisticated, like a computer, or a drug that you take for a headache. You can use it, but… — Chris Cleave Computer Copy Share Image
The future looks like gasoline. . . . crude oil . . . is the future before it has been refined. It… — Chris Cleave Awakening 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 Hope 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
My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham. — Chris Cleave Ambulance Copy Share Image
“A pound coin can go wherever it thinks it will be safest. ... It can disguise itself as power or property and… — Chris Cleave 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
“Once when we stopped to rest, she dug her toes into the earth at the edge of a field and smiled. When… — Chris Cleave Nature Copy Share Image
“I do not think you are wrong for living the life you were born in. A dog must be a dog and… — Chris Cleave Life Copy Share Image
“The gasoline flowing through the pump made a high pitched sound, as if the screaming of my family was still dissolved in… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“You are not dumb, Yevette. All of us who have got this far, all of us who have survived- how can we… — Chris Cleave 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
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious. — Chris Cleave Serious 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
“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
“Off the bike she was like a smoker without cigarettes, never sure what to do with her hands. As soon as she… — Chris Cleave Characterization Copy Share Image
“The mourners clustered around the edge of the grave, paralyzed by the horror of this thing, this first discovery of death that… — Chris Cleave Death Copy Share Image
“..and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar… — Chris Cleave Beauty Copy Share Image
