That is the trouble with happiness-all of it is built on top of something that men want. — Chris Cleave Happiness Copy Share Image
“Maybe he was overreacting....Somehow you were meant to take responsibility, minute to minute, for deciding which events you would call manageable, now… — chris cleave Copy Share Image
“[...] waiting for our lives to converge onto the precise fault line at which our past could be cleaved from our future… — Chris Cleave Time Copy Share Image
I’m telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world. — Chris Cleave Ocean Copy Share Image
“So, I am a refugee, and I get very lonely. Is it my fault if I do not look like an English… — Chris Cleave Immigration 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
“If you cannot read the beautiful things that have happened in someone's life, why should you care about their sadness?” — Chris Cleave Immigration 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
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
“The Thames was cold and it was the colour of the dishwater at the end of the washing up. I remember looking… — Chris Cleave Seeing the light 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 Differences 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
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
You travel here and you travel there, trying to get out from under the cloud, and nothing works, and then one day… — Chris Cleave Clouds Copy Share Image
“because this is how it was with them: the boy’s father had dark skin, darker even than my own, and the boy’s… — Chris Cleave Dark skin Copy Share Image
“But the door …' Tom grinned. ‘Was only ever in your mind.” — Chris Cleave Psychology Copy Share Image
“Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living.” — Chris Cleave Life 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 Good man Copy Share Image
If your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life, smile and pretend to be a fat man. — Chris Cleave Faces 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
“All you've seen is trouble, so you think trouble is all you're going to get.” — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting. — Chris Cleave Children 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
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