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.
CHRIS CLEAVEThere’s what people say, and there’s what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.
More Chris Cleave Quotes
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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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Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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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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And thus love makes fools of us all.
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To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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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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I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.
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A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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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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This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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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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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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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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