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I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

Chris Cleave

Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
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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Survivor Veteran Weight
I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
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
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories
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
[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
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
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
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
We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Behalf Books Movies
I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Serious Smile Thinking
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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Bombs Horse Littles
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married

I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

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I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

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