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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.

Chris Cleave

I’m always determined that as a novelist I’m going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.
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Character Research Writing
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
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
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories
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
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Scar
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married
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
We no longer need to show people being brave: instead, we can examine how they became brave. We can assume that they didn’t start out that way. If we allow that they started out just like us, then their journey into courage becomes both more fascinating and more impressive.
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Brave Journey People
There’s what people say, and there’s what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.
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Differences Mean Two
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing
I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
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 think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking

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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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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