I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
CHRIS CLEAVEI 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”.
More Chris Cleave Quotes
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And thus love makes fools of us all.
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I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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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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My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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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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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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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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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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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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Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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