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.
CHRIS CLEAVEI know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
More Chris Cleave Quotes
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I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.
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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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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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[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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WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.
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If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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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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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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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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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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Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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