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Chris Cleave

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
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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Bad Day Giving Lazy
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells
Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Armistice Ends War
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
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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Stories Talking Writing
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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Reality Refugee Summer
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married
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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Generations Golden Thinking
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage
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
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Fit Soul World
This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other ear it whispers, move on.
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Ears Grief Moving

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