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…?
CHRIS CLEAVEA 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.
More Chris Cleave Quotes
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I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn’t the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn’t deserve my own pity.
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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 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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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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I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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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 think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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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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Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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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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