Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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.
More Chris Cleave Quotes
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My maternal grandmother was in London during the Blitz. Indeed, the man she was dating before she met my grandfather was killed beside her in a cinema, in 1941, when a bomb came through the roof – a tragedy in which she herself was badly wounded.
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If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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And thus love makes fools of us all.
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To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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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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I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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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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We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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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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My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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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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I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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