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Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

If your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life, smile and pretend to be a fat man.

Yu can't live if yu dead, neither. Yu probly too smart to get dat.

She was whispering into it in some language that sounded like butterflies drowning in honey.

Come to Me and we will blow the world back together WITH INCREDIBLE NOISE AND FURY.

I'm a much better writer for being a father.

This was how a kind heart broke, after all: inward, making no shrapnel. Dear

If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.

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.

I'm not happy with just repeating myself.

I do not know why the mind chooses these small things to break itself on.

There was no ritual when one fell apart, society preferring to wait until one was lost entirely.

A scar means, I survived.

lips, excused from their color, had formed words relieved of their sound.

I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.

Our stories are the tellers of us.

At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on.

Occurred to him that no one who hadn't been in battle could know what things were worth.

She knew, now, why her father had not spoken of the last war, nor Alistair of his. It was hardly fair on the living.

I was brought up to believe that everyone brave is forgiven, but in wartime courage is cheap and clemency out of season. Unless

Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

However long the moon disappears, someday it must shine again.

Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.

Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.

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.

In the end I suppose we lay flowers on a grave because we cannot lay ourselves on it.

One does not rise above the everyday simply because one ought to.

Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.

Perhaps life just turned a person who tried harder into a person who felt they must write it on someone else's report.

There are countries of the world, and regions of one's own mind, where it is unwise to travel.

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.

I was hoping my life might make more sense from a great height.

It was an air one might still breathe, if everyone forgiven was brave.

One could always imagine that one's life, though smoldering in parts, might be undamaged in the west.

My whole life is my work.

I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.

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 have our agreement about scars, I know, but this time I looked away because sometime you can see too much beauty.

I understand that your brain is large and perpetually at war with itself

There was something about the star, rising above the stable, that still pulled a crowd in from the fields.

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.

I am a woman built on the wreckage of herself, Narrator

All the things we make exceptional are merely borrowed from the mundane and must without warning be surrendered to it.

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means I've survived.

People wonder how they are ever going to change their lives, but really it is frighteningly easy.

Women fall differently, that's all. We die by the stopping of our hearts, they by the insistence of theirs.

I was carrying two cargoes. Yes, one of them was horror, but the other one was hope.

April showers bring May flowers

But the film in your memory, your cannot walk out so easily.Wherever you go it is always playing

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

There's eight million people here pretending the others aren't getting on their nerves. I believe it's called civilization.

I thought there'd be some black people." "Hitler will only fight them in separate units. He's a snob.

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.

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 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.

who, what, where, when, and why?

Stupid is you can't learn, ignorant is you haven't learned yet.

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.

It is good to live like this. Once you are ready to die, you do not suffer so badly from the horror.

Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.

There was extraordinary pain behind the ordinary nouns.

Death, finally, was British; life chaotic and foreign. The

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.

Our stories are the tellers of us. -Little Bee

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.

Such was the past, after all: it left the present cluttered with objects the survivors were immune to.

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.

You are a mousetrap of a friend, all soft cheese and hard springs

Everything can be restored. If one won't believe that, how does one endure all this?

Let them say whatever gives them comfort.

It is possible to do good things with an imperfect situation.

London was perfectly prepared to give him a night out of anywhere on earth, and yet all he asked was to come home.

A girl like me gets stopped at immigration.

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.

I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.

With love, one could glow. One did not need the intense flame after all. Now

What is the good of influence if one can only use it on strangers?

Peace is a time when people can tell each other their real names

The young see the world that they wish for. The old see the world as it is. You

If I can't write it would be as if I died.

You are blind to the present and we are blind to the future

But life is not inclined to let any of us escape.

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.

This thing with being lovers, it isn't like being married.

hand of a soldier on my arm but I did not turn

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?

We are a nation of glorious cowards, ready to battle any evil but our own." Her

There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.

The first problem of war was that no one was any good at it yet.

But what good is it to teach a child to count, if you don't show him that he counts for something?

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.

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.

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].

April showers bring May flower

I'm really interested in people's decisions.

To be well in your mind you have first to be free.

I'm telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.

You're not asking for input. You are asking your admirer's to prove they are paying attention.

This helpful war. It makes us better people and then it tries to kill us.