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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.

Chris Cleave

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
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
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
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage
I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories
Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well– here is the truth– you have to talk yourself out of it.
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Girl Looks Stories
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
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Fit Soul World
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
Is it my fault if I do not look like an English girl and I do not talk like a Nigerian? Well, who says an English girl must have skin as pale as the clouds that float across her summers? Who says a Nigerian girl must speak in fallen English…?
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Clouds Girl Summer
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
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 write in the novel’s afterword that our recent wars “finish not with victory or defeat but with a calendar draw-down date and a presumption that we shall never be reconciled with the enemy”.
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Enemy War Writing

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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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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