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Chris Cleave quotes: Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles. Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
Chris Cleave quotes: If your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life, smile and pretend to be a fat man. If your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life, smile and pretend to be a fat man.
Chris Cleave quotes: Yu can't live if yu dead, neither. Yu probly too smart to get dat. Yu can't live if yu dead, neither. Yu probly too smart to get dat.
Chris Cleave quotes: She was whispering into it in some language that sounded like butterflies drowning in honey. She was whispering into it in some language that sounded like butterflies drowning in honey.
Chris Cleave quotes: Come to Me and we will blow the world back together WITH INCREDIBLE NOISE AND FURY. Come to Me and we will blow the world back together WITH INCREDIBLE NOISE AND FURY.
Chris Cleave quotes: I'm a much better writer for being a father. I'm a much better writer for being a father.
Chris Cleave quotes: This was how a kind heart broke, after all: inward, making no shrapnel. Dear This was how a kind heart broke, after all: inward, making no shrapnel. Dear
Chris Cleave quotes: If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious. If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
Chris Cleave quotes: There was no quick grief for Andrew because he had been so slowly lost. First from my heart, then from my mind, and only finally from my life. There was no quick grief for Andrew because he had been so slowly lost. First from my heart, then from my mind, and only finally from my life.
Chris Cleave quotes: I'm not happy with just repeating myself. I'm not happy with just repeating myself.
Chris Cleave quotes: I do not know why the mind chooses these small things to break itself on. I do not know why the mind chooses these small things to break itself on.
Chris Cleave quotes: There was no ritual when one fell apart, society preferring to wait until one was lost entirely. There was no ritual when one fell apart, society preferring to wait until one was lost entirely.
Chris Cleave quotes: A scar means, I survived. A scar means, I survived.
Chris Cleave quotes: lips, excused from their color, had formed words relieved of their sound. lips, excused from their color, had formed words relieved of their sound.
Chris Cleave quotes: I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul. I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
Chris Cleave quotes: Our stories are the tellers of us. Our stories are the tellers of us.
Chris Cleave quotes: At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on. At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on.
Chris Cleave quotes: Occurred to him that no one who hadn't been in battle could know what things were worth. Occurred to him that no one who hadn't been in battle could know what things were worth.
Chris Cleave quotes: She knew, now, why her father had not spoken of the last war, nor Alistair of his. It was hardly fair on the living. She knew, now, why her father had not spoken of the last war, nor Alistair of his. It was hardly fair on the living.
Chris Cleave quotes: I was brought up to believe that everyone brave is forgiven, but in wartime courage is cheap and clemency out of season. Unless I was brought up to believe that everyone brave is forgiven, but in wartime courage is cheap and clemency out of season. Unless
Chris Cleave quotes: Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds. Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.
Chris Cleave quotes: However long the moon disappears, someday it must shine again. However long the moon disappears, someday it must shine again.
Chris Cleave quotes: Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began. Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
Chris Cleave quotes: Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs. Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.
Chris Cleave quotes: 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. 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.
Chris Cleave quotes: In the end I suppose we lay flowers on a grave because we cannot lay ourselves on it. In the end I suppose we lay flowers on a grave because we cannot lay ourselves on it.
Chris Cleave quotes: One does not rise above the everyday simply because one ought to. One does not rise above the everyday simply because one ought to.
Chris Cleave quotes: Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting. Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.
Chris Cleave quotes: Perhaps life just turned a person who tried harder into a person who felt they must write it on someone else's report. Perhaps life just turned a person who tried harder into a person who felt they must write it on someone else's report.
Chris Cleave quotes: There are countries of the world, and regions of one's own mind, where it is unwise to travel. There are countries of the world, and regions of one's own mind, where it is unwise to travel.
Chris Cleave quotes: Yu only be livin one life, darlin. Don't matter yu don't uh-preshie-ate part of it, cos it don't stop bein part of yu. Yu only be livin one life, darlin. Don't matter yu don't uh-preshie-ate part of it, cos it don't stop bein part of yu.
Chris Cleave quotes: I was hoping my life might make more sense from a great height. I was hoping my life might make more sense from a great height.
Chris Cleave quotes: It was an air one might still breathe, if everyone forgiven was brave. It was an air one might still breathe, if everyone forgiven was brave.
Chris Cleave quotes: One could always imagine that one's life, though smoldering in parts, might be undamaged in the west. One could always imagine that one's life, though smoldering in parts, might be undamaged in the west.
Chris Cleave quotes: My whole life is my work. My whole life is my work.
Chris Cleave quotes: I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself. I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
Chris Cleave quotes: We're often told that we live in a globalized world, and we talk about it all the time, but people don't stop to think about what it means. We're often told that we live in a globalized world, and we talk about it all the time, but people don't stop to think about what it means.
Chris Cleave quotes: We have our agreement about scars, I know, but this time I looked away because sometime you can see too much beauty. We have our agreement about scars, I know, but this time I looked away because sometime you can see too much beauty.
Chris Cleave quotes: I understand that your brain is large and perpetually at war with itself I understand that your brain is large and perpetually at war with itself
Chris Cleave quotes: There was something about the star, rising above the stable, that still pulled a crowd in from the fields. There was something about the star, rising above the stable, that still pulled a crowd in from the fields.
Chris Cleave quotes: In the history of the world there was not one example of a man ever having written a satisfactory letter to a woman who mattered to him. In the history of the world there was not one example of a man ever having written a satisfactory letter to a woman who mattered to him.
Chris Cleave quotes: I am a woman built on the wreckage of herself, Narrator I am a woman built on the wreckage of herself, Narrator
Chris Cleave quotes: All the things we make exceptional are merely borrowed from the mundane and must without warning be surrendered to it. All the things we make exceptional are merely borrowed from the mundane and must without warning be surrendered to it.
Chris Cleave quotes: A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means I've survived. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means I've survived.
Chris Cleave quotes: People wonder how they are ever going to change their lives, but really it is frighteningly easy. People wonder how they are ever going to change their lives, but really it is frighteningly easy.
Chris Cleave quotes: Women fall differently, that's all. We die by the stopping of our hearts, they by the insistence of theirs. Women fall differently, that's all. We die by the stopping of our hearts, they by the insistence of theirs.
Chris Cleave quotes: I was carrying two cargoes. Yes, one of them was horror, but the other one was hope. I was carrying two cargoes. Yes, one of them was horror, but the other one was hope.
Chris Cleave quotes: April showers bring May flowers April showers bring May flowers
Chris Cleave quotes: But the film in your memory, your cannot walk out so easily.Wherever you go it is always playing But the film in your memory, your cannot walk out so easily.Wherever you go it is always playing
Chris Cleave quotes: I do not think you are wrong for living the life you were born in. A dog must be a dog and a wolf must be a wolf, that is I do not think you are wrong for living the life you were born in. A dog must be a dog and a wolf must be a wolf, that is the proverb in my county
Chris Cleave quotes: There's eight million people here pretending the others aren't getting on their nerves. I believe it's called civilization. There's eight million people here pretending the others aren't getting on their nerves. I believe it's called civilization.
Chris Cleave quotes: I thought there'd be some black people." "Hitler will only fight them in separate units. He's a snob. I thought there'd be some black people." "Hitler will only fight them in separate units. He's a snob.
Chris Cleave quotes: In the quiet of the garden then the robin shook his worm, and swallowed its life from the light into darkness with the quick indifference of a god. In the quiet of the garden then the robin shook his worm, and swallowed its life from the light into darkness with the quick indifference of a god.
Chris Cleave quotes: I suppose all of us have to look at our job and ask how it now serves the cause I suppose one is lucky if a simple answer presents itself. I suppose all of us have to look at our job and ask how it now serves the cause I suppose one is lucky if a simple answer presents itself.
Chris Cleave quotes: I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete. I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.
Chris Cleave quotes: who, what, where, when, and why? who, what, where, when, and why?
Chris Cleave quotes: Stupid is you can't learn, ignorant is you haven't learned yet. Stupid is you can't learn, ignorant is you haven't learned yet.
Chris Cleave quotes: I realized that I was carrying two cargoes. Yes, one of them was horror, but the other one was hope. I realized I had killed myself back to life. I realized that I was carrying two cargoes. Yes, one of them was horror, but the other one was hope. I realized I had killed myself back to life.
Chris Cleave quotes: It is good to live like this. Once you are ready to die, you do not suffer so badly from the horror. It is good to live like this. Once you are ready to die, you do not suffer so badly from the horror.
Chris Cleave quotes: Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it. Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.
Chris Cleave quotes: There was extraordinary pain behind the ordinary nouns. There was extraordinary pain behind the ordinary nouns.
Chris Cleave quotes: Death, finally, was British; life chaotic and foreign. The Death, finally, was British; life chaotic and foreign. The
Chris Cleave quotes: Yes but he is a man though, don't you see? You could knit one quicker than you can make one fit off-the-shelf. Yes but he is a man though, don't you see? You could knit one quicker than you can make one fit off-the-shelf.
Chris Cleave quotes: Our stories are the tellers of us. -Little Bee Our stories are the tellers of us. -Little Bee
Chris Cleave quotes: London had always had this trick of living in two time signatures at once - the urgent and the always - each in earshot of the other. London had always had this trick of living in two time signatures at once - the urgent and the always - each in earshot of the other.
Chris Cleave quotes: Such was the past, after all: it left the present cluttered with objects the survivors were immune to. Such was the past, after all: it left the present cluttered with objects the survivors were immune to.
Chris Cleave quotes: Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't deserve my own pity. Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't deserve my own pity.
Chris Cleave quotes: You are a mousetrap of a friend, all soft cheese and hard springs You are a mousetrap of a friend, all soft cheese and hard springs
Chris Cleave quotes: Everything can be restored. If one won't believe that, how does one endure all this? Everything can be restored. If one won't believe that, how does one endure all this?
Chris Cleave quotes: Let them say whatever gives them comfort. Let them say whatever gives them comfort.
Chris Cleave quotes: It is possible to do good things with an imperfect situation. It is possible to do good things with an imperfect situation.
Chris Cleave quotes: London was perfectly prepared to give him a night out of anywhere on earth, and yet all he asked was to come home. London was perfectly prepared to give him a night out of anywhere on earth, and yet all he asked was to come home.
Chris Cleave quotes: A girl like me gets stopped at immigration. A girl like me gets stopped at immigration.
Chris Cleave quotes: She supposed she must be in love. That [he] was slightly infuriating, and that she didn't mind in the slightest, might be proof of it. She supposed she must be in love. That [he] was slightly infuriating, and that she didn't mind in the slightest, might be proof of it.
Chris Cleave quotes: I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school. I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.
Chris Cleave quotes: With love, one could glow. One did not need the intense flame after all. Now With love, one could glow. One did not need the intense flame after all. Now
Chris Cleave quotes: What is the good of influence if one can only use it on strangers? What is the good of influence if one can only use it on strangers?
Chris Cleave quotes: Peace is a time when people can tell each other their real names Peace is a time when people can tell each other their real names
Chris Cleave quotes: The young see the world that they wish for. The old see the world as it is. You The young see the world that they wish for. The old see the world as it is. You
Chris Cleave quotes: If I can't write it would be as if I died. If I can't write it would be as if I died.
Chris Cleave quotes: You are blind to the present and we are blind to the future You are blind to the present and we are blind to the future
Chris Cleave quotes: But life is not inclined to let any of us escape. But life is not inclined to let any of us escape.
Chris Cleave quotes: We did not have hurry. We did not have electricity or fresh water or sadness either, because none of these had been connected to our village yet. We did not have hurry. We did not have electricity or fresh water or sadness either, because none of these had been connected to our village yet.
Chris Cleave quotes: This thing with being lovers, it isn't like being married. This thing with being lovers, it isn't like being married.
Chris Cleave quotes: hand of a soldier on my arm but I did not turn hand of a soldier on my arm but I did not turn
Chris Cleave quotes: I hope this letter reaches you (Osama) anyway. I hope it finds you before the Americans do otherwise I'm going to wish I hadn't bothered aren't I? I hope this letter reaches you (Osama) anyway. I hope it finds you before the Americans do otherwise I'm going to wish I hadn't bothered aren't I?
Chris Cleave quotes: We are a nation of glorious cowards, ready to battle any evil but our own." Her We are a nation of glorious cowards, ready to battle any evil but our own." Her
Chris Cleave quotes: There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two. There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.
Chris Cleave quotes: The first problem of war was that no one was any good at it yet. The first problem of war was that no one was any good at it yet.
Chris Cleave quotes: But what good is it to teach a child to count, if you don't show him that he counts for something? But what good is it to teach a child to count, if you don't show him that he counts for something?
Chris Cleave quotes: 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. 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.
Chris Cleave quotes: You know what worries me about the enemy? It's the violence. It is almost as if he thinks he can solve every problem this way. You know what worries me about the enemy? It's the violence. It is almost as if he thinks he can solve every problem this way.
Chris Cleave quotes: The gasoline flowing through the pump made a high pitched sound, as if the screaming of my family was still dissolved in it [p.181]. The gasoline flowing through the pump made a high pitched sound, as if the screaming of my family was still dissolved in it [p.181].
Chris Cleave quotes: April showers bring May flower April showers bring May flower
Chris Cleave quotes: I'm really interested in people's decisions. I'm really interested in people's decisions.
Chris Cleave quotes: To be well in your mind you have first to be free. To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
Chris Cleave quotes: I'm telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world. I'm telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.
Chris Cleave quotes: We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves. We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
Chris Cleave quotes: You're not asking for input. You are asking your admirer's to prove they are paying attention. You're not asking for input. You are asking your admirer's to prove they are paying attention.
Chris Cleave quotes: This helpful war. It makes us better people and then it tries to kill us. This helpful war. It makes us better people and then it tries to kill us.

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