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I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.

Chris Cleave

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 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
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Scar
I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don’t always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn’t have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I’m interested in the exceptions.
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Anger Hate 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 am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
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
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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Reality Refugee Summer
I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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Happy Just Not Repairing
[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 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

I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.

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