We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
CHRIS CLEAVEA scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
More Chris Cleave Quotes
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Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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[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.
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I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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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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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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This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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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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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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I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and Henry the Eighth (marry Henry the Eighth)- Little Bee
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WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.
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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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