Quote by Chris Cleave

It was hard not to be full of hope

— Chris Cleave

I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that…

— Chris Cleave

This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other…

— Chris Cleave

In a few breaths' time I will speak some sad words to you. But you must hear them the same way we have agreed…

— Chris Cleave

Wouldn't that be funny, if the oil rebels were playing U2 in their jungle camps, and the government soldiers were playing U2 in their…

— Chris Cleave

“When death comes you do not stay for one minute in the place it has visited. Many things arrive after death-sadness, questions, and policemen-…

— Chris Cleave

“I smiled down at Charlie, and I understood that he would be free now even if I would not. In this way the life…

— Chris Cleave

I do think it is harder to acknowledge our strengths, or to forgive ourselves and each other for our shortcomings, when there has not…

— Chris Cleave

I think the recent cluster of WWII novels is so good because we have reached an optimal distance from the war. Just as a…

— Chris Cleave

“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 yu.”

— Chris Cleave

Sometimes we don't notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us.

— Chris Cleave

Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.

— Chris Cleave