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.
CHRIS CLEAVEAndrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
More Chris Cleave Quotes
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I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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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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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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We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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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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[My maternal grandmother ] was a teacher in London and elsewhere during the war, although the children she taught were not the “lost children” who feature in the novel – those come from my research.
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Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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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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If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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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 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
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I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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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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