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
CHRIS CLEAVEStill 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.
More Chris Cleave Quotes
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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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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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If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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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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Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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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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Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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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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