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I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.

Chris Cleave

We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Behalf Books Movies
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
I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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Happy Just Not Repairing
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
[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
Everyone carries the weight of WWII with them in their recent family history, and yet it is rarely spoken about within families, because veterans and survivors don’t tend to talk.
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Survivor Veteran Weight
I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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Reality Refugee Summer
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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Dying Mean Thinking
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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Brave Easy Sometimes
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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Dating Grandmother Men
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
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
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
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
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Scar

I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.

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