If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
CHRIS CLEAVEIf I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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.
CHRIS CLEAVEA scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
CHRIS CLEAVEIf I can’t write it would be as if I died.
CHRIS CLEAVEI think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.
CHRIS CLEAVEEveryone 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.
CHRIS CLEAVEThat 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.
CHRIS CLEAVEI’m a much better writer for being a father.
CHRIS CLEAVESometimes we don’t notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us.
CHRIS CLEAVEThis 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.
CHRIS CLEAVEThings that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
CHRIS CLEAVEStill 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.
CHRIS CLEAVEHorror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.
CHRIS CLEAVEAndrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
CHRIS CLEAVEI’m not happy with just repeating myself.
CHRIS CLEAVETo be well in your mind you have first to be free.
CHRIS CLEAVE