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

Chris Cleave

We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
CHRIS CLEAVE

Behalf Books Movies
Death, of course, is a refuge. It’s where you go when a new name, or a mask and cape, can no longer hide you from yourself. It’s where you run to when none of the principalities of your conscience will grant you asylum.
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Capes Names Running
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
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
[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
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
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.
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Bad Day Giving Lazy
I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married
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
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells
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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Country Horror Suffering
I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
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
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing

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

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