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That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.

Chris Cleave

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
Still 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.
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Cry Pity Understood
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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Enemy War Writing
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing
I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells
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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Alive Mean Stories
My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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Ambulance Birmingham Grandmother
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Serious Smile Thinking
Is it my fault if I do not look like an English girl and I do not talk like a Nigerian? Well, who says an English girl must have skin as pale as the clouds that float across her summers? Who says a Nigerian girl must speak in fallen English…?
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Clouds Girl Summer
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Fit Soul World
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
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
We no longer need to show people being brave: instead, we can examine how they became brave. We can assume that they didn’t start out that way. If we allow that they started out just like us, then their journey into courage becomes both more fascinating and more impressive.
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Brave Journey People
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

That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.

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That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.

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