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  • Chris Cleave Quote - If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
  • Chris Cleave Quote - If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
  • Chris Cleave Quote - If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
  • Chris Cleave Quote - If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
  • Chris Cleave Quote - If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.

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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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - [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. Download This Image

    [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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - 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”.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - At this point in time the war [ WWII] is close enough to still feel hotly personal to a writer, yet far enough away so that jingoism and heroics are no longer required. Download This Image

    At this point in time the war [ WWII] is close enough to still feel hotly personal to a writer, yet far enough away so that jingoism and heroics are no longer required.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.

    This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself. Download This Image

    I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - If I can’t write it would be as if I died. Download This Image

    If I can’t write it would be as if I died.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive

    Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

    A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

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    And thus love makes fools of us all.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - Sometimes we don’t notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory. Download This Image

    WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don’t always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn’t have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I’m interested in the exceptions.

    The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don’t always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn’t have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I’m interested in the exceptions.

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