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My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.

Chris Cleave

I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking
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’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
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
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
[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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Children Teacher War
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories
Sometimes we don’t notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us.
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Brave Easy Sometimes
I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.
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Guy School Thinking
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
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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Brave Journey People
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing
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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Doctors Giving Pickles
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
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
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

My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.

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