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Sometimes we don’t notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us.

Chris Cleave

Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Armistice Ends War
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
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
Still 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.
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Cry Pity Understood
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Fit Soul World
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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Alive Mean Stories
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married
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
WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.
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Events Memories Wwii
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
I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking
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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Country Horror Suffering
[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 not happy with just repeating myself.
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Happy Just Not Repairing
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing

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