I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
CHRIS CLEAVEI 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.
More Chris Cleave Quotes
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Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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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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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 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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Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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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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If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other ear it whispers, move on.
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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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I write in the novel’s afterword that our recent wars “finish not with victory or defeat but with a calendar draw-down date and a presumption that we shall never be reconciled with the enemy”.
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