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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

I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Fit Soul World
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Serious Smile Thinking
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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Hope Missing Without Young
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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Bad Day Giving Lazy
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
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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Reality Refugee Summer
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Scar
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
I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking
My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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Ambulance Birmingham Grandmother
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
We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Behalf Books Movies

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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