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.
CHRIS CLEAVEThings that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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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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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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If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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And thus love makes fools of us all.
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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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Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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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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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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