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Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.

Chris Cleave

I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
My maternal grandmother was in London during the Blitz. Indeed, the man she was dating before she met my grandfather was killed beside her in a cinema, in 1941, when a bomb came through the roof – a tragedy in which she herself was badly wounded.
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Dating Grandmother Men
Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn’t the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn’t deserve my own pity.
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Cry Pity Understood
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories
This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other ear it whispers, move on.
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Ears Grief Moving
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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Reality Refugee Summer
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.
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Alive Mean Stories
I think all of us are intrigued to imagine what we as individuals would become, if we were ever tested as hard as that golden generation was.
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Generations Golden Thinking
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells
I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
I’m always determined that as a novelist I’m going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.
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Character Research Writing
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
Everyone carries the weight of WWII with them in their recent family history, and yet it is rarely spoken about within families, because veterans and survivors don’t tend to talk.
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Survivor Veteran Weight
That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.
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Hope Missing Without Young

Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.

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