My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
People wonder how they are ever going to change their lives, but really it is frighteningly easy. — Chris Cleave 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
“There are countries of the world, and regions of one's own mind, where it is unwise to travel.” — Chris Cleave Little bee Copy Share Image
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“You're not asking for input. You are asking your admirer's to prove they are paying attention.” — Chris Cleave Acceptance-of-oneself 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
In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know… — Chris Cleave 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
“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
“How well it had suited me, that absolute license to march up to evildoers and demand who, what, where, when and why?” — Chris Cleave Journalism Copy Share Image
“Her life was one endless loop that she raced around, with steep banked curves so she could never change or slow down.… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
We no longer need to show people being brave: instead, we can examine how they became brave. We can assume that they… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Is it my fault if I do not look like an English girl and I do not talk like a Nigerian? Well,… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“The church was stuffed with mourners, of course. No one from work - I tried to keep my life and my magazine… — Chris Cleave 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
“The only reason we were married in such haste was that my mother begged me not to marry Andrew at all. One… — Chris Cleave Marriage Copy Share Image
“I looked around me at the beautiful sunrise and I was thinking, Yes, yes, everything will be beautiful like this now. I… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I think the recent cluster of WWII novels is so good because we have reached an optimal distance from the war. Just… — Chris Cleave Action 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 Copy Share Image
I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“She was whispering into it in some language that sounded like butterflies drowning in honey.” — Chris Cleave Whispering Copy Share Image
It is certainly impossible to imagine forgiving the enemy while their animus remains undefeated. — Chris Cleave Animus Copy Share Image
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“We are a nation of glorious cowards, ready to battle any evil but our own.” Her” — Chris Cleave Cowards 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 Copy Share Image
I think all of us are intrigued to imagine what we as individuals would become, if we were ever tested as hard… — Chris Cleave Generations 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
We're often told that we live in a globalized world, and we talk about it all the time, but people don't stop… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“How to explain... that the warning signs were so slight ? That disaster, when it is quite sure of its own strength,… — Chris Cleave Warning signs Copy Share Image
