“I learned your language and I learned your rules. I am more like you than me now.” — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
This thing with being lovers, it isn't like being married. — Chris Cleave Being married Copy Share Image
That is the trouble with happiness-all of it is built on top of something that men want. — Chris Cleave Happiness 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
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles. — Chris Cleave 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
[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 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 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 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
“on a bike ride through the Surrey Lanes, pedalling in my cotton dress through the hot fields blushing with poppies, freewheeling down… — Chris Cleave 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 Copy Share Image
“He really had experienced every tiniest increment of time in the four decades since then, and yet here he was surprised to… — Chris Cleave Age 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
“Me and Nkiruka, we watched through the window until the moon grew an extraordinary size, so big that it filled the window… — Chris Cleave Man in the moon Copy Share Image
“For me and the girls from my village, horror is a disease and we are sick with it. It is not an… — Chris Cleave Horror 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 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“It was beautiful, and that is a word I would not need to explain to the girls from back home, and I… — Chris Cleave 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
“We never tasted tea in my village, even though they grow it in the east of my country, where the land rises… — Chris Cleave Coffee Copy Share Image
“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 Coffee Copy Share Image
“But that is the way with killers, I suppose. What is the end of all innocence for you is just another Tuesday… — Chris Cleave Death Copy Share Image
I think my ideal man would speak many languages. He would speak Ibo and Yoruba and English and French and all of… — Chris Cleave Beautiful Copy Share Image
If your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life, smile and pretend to be a fat man. — Chris Cleave Beatings Copy Share Image
Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs. — Chris Cleave Affair 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
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“I do not know why the mind chooses these small things to break itself on.” — Chris Cleave Mind 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
“...and I laughed and laughed and laughed until the sound of the sea was drowned.” — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
![“[My maternal grandmother ] was a teacher in London and elsewhere during the war, although the children she taught were not the "lost children" who feature in the novel - those come from my research.” quote by Chris Cleave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02f/chris-cleave-1698_children_my-maternal-grandmother-was-a-teacher-in_2281565.png)
![“At this point in time the war [ WWII] is close enough to still feel hotly personal to a writer, yet far enough away so that jingoism and heroics are no longer required.” quote by Chris Cleave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/faa/chris-cleave-1698_enough_at-this-point-in-time-the-war-wwii-is-cl_2917774.png)
