This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
CHRIS CLEAVEMy 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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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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A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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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 bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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