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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

I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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Happy Just Not Repairing
Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well– here is the truth– you have to talk yourself out of it.
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Girl Looks Stories
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
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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Character Research Writing
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories
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
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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Capes Names Running
[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
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Scar
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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Differences Mean Two
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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Hope Missing Without Young
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
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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Country Horror Suffering
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

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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