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”.
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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.
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I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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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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I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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I’m always determined that as a novelist I’m going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.
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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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My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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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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Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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And thus love makes fools of us all.
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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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Everyone carries the weight of WWII with them in their recent family history, and yet it is rarely spoken about within families, because veterans and survivors don’t tend to talk.
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