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A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

Chris Cleave

Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Armistice Ends War
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Fit Soul World
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
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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Anger Hate Writing
I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
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
[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
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
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Serious Smile Thinking
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage
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
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells
My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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Ambulance Birmingham Grandmother
A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Thinking

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

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