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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.

Chris Cleave

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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Reality Refugee Summer
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Serious Smile Thinking
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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Doctors Giving Pickles
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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Bombs Horse Littles
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
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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Alive Mean Stories
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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Cry Pity Understood
Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Armistice Ends War
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing
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
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
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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Anger Hate Writing
I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
[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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Children Teacher War
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Fit Soul World

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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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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