Death, of course, is a refuge. It’s where you go when a new name, or a mask and cape, can no longer hide you from yourself. It’s where you run to when none of the principalities of your conscience will grant you asylum.
CHRIS CLEAVEThis thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
More Chris Cleave Quotes
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To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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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.
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[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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I think all of us are intrigued to imagine what we as individuals would become, if we were ever tested as hard as that golden generation was.
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I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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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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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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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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We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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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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I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.
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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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Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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