“[...] 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 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
“A scar is never ugly. We must see all scars as beauty. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar… — Chris Cleave Beauty Copy Share Image
“Perhaps at twenty, one is naturally curious about life, but at thirty, simply suspicious of anyone who still has one.” — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't… — Chris Cleave Cry 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
We don't know our hearts until life puts us to the test, and WWII fascinates because it was the last time everyone… — Chris Cleave Heart Copy Share Image
Sometimes we don't notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us. — Chris Cleave Brave Copy Share Image
Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Would we be the heroes or the cowards of the piece? Would we follow orders or stick to our principles, if those… — Chris Cleave Brave Copy Share Image
“They found my husband with his feet treading empty air, touching the soil of no country. Death, of course, is a refuge.… — Chris Cleave Asylum Copy Share Image
They say that in the hour before an earthquake the clouds hang leaden in the sky, the winds slows to a hot… — Chris Cleave Bird Copy Share Image
“Putting down the power right from the whistle would be ugly and brutal, but it would get the job done. He wanted… — Chris Cleave Coaching Copy Share Image
“[Sarah has had the middle finger of her left hand amputated] and she says that when she types: I can't rely on… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a… — Chris Cleave Antithesis Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother was in London during the Blitz. Indeed, the man she was dating before she met my grandfather was killed… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“If I was telling this story to the girls from back home, I would have to explain to them how it was… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore.… — Chris Cleave Athlete 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 Copy Share Image
I do think it is harder to acknowledge our strengths, or to forgive ourselves and each other for our shortcomings, when there… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“Yu only be livin one life, darlin. Don't matter yu don't uh-preshie-ate part of it, cos it don't stop bein part of… — Chris Cleave Life Copy Share Image
We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not… — Chris Cleave Beauty Copy Share Image
“Of course the children had exchanged labels with one another the second her back was turned. They were only human, even if… — Chris Cleave Children Copy Share Image
“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 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 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
“The gasoline flowing through the pump made a high pitched sound, as if the screaming of my family was still dissolved in… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“We have our agreement about scars, I know, but this time I looked away because sometime you can see too much beauty.” — Chris Cleave Beauty Copy Share Image
The future looks like gasoline. . . . crude oil . . . is the future before it has been refined. It… — Chris Cleave Awakening Copy Share Image
“... Sometimes -- in the rare moments when she wasn't causing quite serious mental discomfort -- being friends with Zoe was like… — Chris Cleave Friendship Copy Share Image
This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in… — Chris Cleave 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 Copy Share Image
Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it. — Chris Cleave Country 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 Copy Share Image
“The mourners clustered around the edge of the grave, paralyzed by the horror of this thing, this first discovery of death that… — Chris Cleave Death Copy Share Image
“It turned out that the only difference between children and adults was that children were prepared to put twice the energy into… — Chris Cleave Child 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
“I smiled back at Charlie and I knew that the hopes of this whole human world could fit inside one soul. This… — Chris Cleave Globalization Copy Share Image
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![“[Sarah has had the middle finger of her left hand amputated] and she says that when she types: I can't rely on E,D, and C anymore. They go missing when I need them most. Pleased becomes please. Ecstasies becomes stasis.” quote by Chris Cleave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2e/chris-cleave-1698_left-hand_sarah-has-had-the-middle-finger-of-her-l_1041605.png)
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