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 CLEAVEWe 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.
More Chris Cleave Quotes
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If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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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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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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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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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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Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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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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I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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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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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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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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I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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