“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
I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to… — Chris Cleave Started 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
“With this girl – girl three in the queue – her story had made her so sad that she did not know… — Chris Cleave Know Girl Copy Share Image
“If you cannot read the beautiful things that have happened in someone's life, why should you care about their sadness?” — Chris Cleave Beautiful things 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 Heart Copy Share Image
There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two. — Chris Cleave Difference Copy Share Image
The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy. — Chris Cleave Asylum seekers 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
“I did not want to tell her what happened, but I had to now. I could not stop talking because now I… — Chris Cleave Stop talking 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 Explosion Copy Share Image
On our honeymoon we talked and talked. We stayed in a beachfront villa, and we drank rum and lemonade and talked so… — Chris Cleave Andrew Copy Share Image
“...I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar maker… — Chris Cleave Beauty 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 Emptiness Copy Share Image
You may think that's funny Osama but you never can squeeze every last bit of pride out of a human being. It's… — Chris Cleave Crush Copy Share Image
Wouldn't that be funny, if the oil rebels were playing U2 in their jungle camps, and the government soldiers were playing U2… — Chris Cleave Camps Copy Share Image
There was no quick grief for Andrew because he had been so slowly lost. First from my heart, then from my mind,… — Chris Cleave Andrew 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
Courage is a muscle that develops through use. It's no use waiting for some inner fire to conveniently become apparent at the… — Chris Cleave Cartoon 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 Coin 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
“It was depression that killed Andrew, of course - depression and guilt. But my son didn't believe in death, let alone in… — Chris Cleave Death Copy Share Image
We must constantly dare ourselves in the small things, until courage becomes a habit of mind that will serve us when we… — Chris Cleave Courage Copy Share Image
“There’s eight million people here pretending the others aren’t getting on their nerves. I believe it’s called civilization.” — Chris Cleave Civilization Copy Share Image
“Perhaps this was what it was to grow up: this realization that the world was already staffed with people and that one… — Chris Cleave Realization 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
In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know… — Chris Cleave Chasing Copy Share Image
“You have seen trouble too, Sarah. You are making a mistake if you think it is unusual. I am telling you, trouble… — Chris Cleave Failure 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
“You are not dumb, Yevette. All of us who have got this far, all of us who have survived- how can we… — Chris Cleave Dumb Copy Share Image
“on a bike ride through the Surrey Lanes, pedalling in my cotton dress through the hot fields blushing with poppies, freewheeling down… — Chris Cleave Bike Copy Share Image
Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is… — Chris Cleave Behinds Copy Share Image
I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme… — Chris Cleave Athlete 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
“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
“He reached out a hand behind the headrest of his seat and Kate took it, and they squeezed. The pressure created a… — Chris Cleave Gaze Copy Share Image
[My maternal grandmother ] was a teacher in London and elsewhere during the war, although the children she taught were not the… — Chris Cleave Children 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
At this point in time the war [ WWII] is close enough to still feel hotly personal to a writer, yet far… — Chris Cleave Enough Copy Share Image
Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds. — Chris Cleave Conviction Copy Share Image
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