A 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.
CHRIS CLEAVEI 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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I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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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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Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.
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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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There’s what people say, and there’s what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.
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Is it my fault if I do not look like an English girl and I do not talk like a Nigerian? Well, who says an English girl must have skin as pale as the clouds that float across her summers? Who says a Nigerian girl must speak in fallen English…?
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We no longer need to show people being brave: instead, we can examine how they became brave. We can assume that they didn’t start out that way. If we allow that they started out just like us, then their journey into courage becomes both more fascinating and more impressive.
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To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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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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I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.
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I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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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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