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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.

Chris Cleave

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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Ears Grief Moving
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
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
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married
WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.
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Events Memories Wwii
I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.
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Guy School Thinking
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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Reality Refugee Summer
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Scar
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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Anger Hate Writing
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Fit Soul World
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells
I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Behalf Books Movies
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage

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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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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