Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.
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 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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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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If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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And thus love makes fools of us all.
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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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I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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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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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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We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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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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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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This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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