“It was a patient business, talking comets down to the speed of life.” — Chris Cleave Business Copy Share Image
Everyone carries the weight of WWII with them in their recent family history, and yet it is rarely spoken about within families,… — Chris Cleave Carrie Copy Share Image
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves. — Chris Cleave Exile 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 Stop talking Copy Share Image
This thing with being lovers, it isn't like being married. — Chris Cleave Being married 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
“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
The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at… — Chris Cleave Bad day 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 Gold 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 film 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
We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us. — Chris Cleave Stories 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 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
That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future… — Chris Cleave Hope 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
“did not cry when they killed my sister but I did cry when I heard the music coming out of the soldiers’… — Chris Cleave Favorite song 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
“She was whispering into it in some language that sounded like butterflies drowning in honey.” — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“Compromise, eh? Isn't it sad, growing up? You start off like Charlie. You start off thinking you can kill all the baddies… — Chris Cleave Little bee 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
