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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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    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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    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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    [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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    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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    Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.

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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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    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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    WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.

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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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    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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    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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    Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.

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    And thus love makes fools of us all.

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    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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    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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    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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