A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
CHRIS CLEAVEIf I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
More Chris Cleave Quotes
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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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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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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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I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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And thus love makes fools of us all.
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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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My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.
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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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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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I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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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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If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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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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