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It was hard not to be full of hope
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What's he like?" "Thoughtful. Interesting. Compassionate." "These are English words for ugly.
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She was whispering into it in some language that sounded like butterflies drowning in honey.
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I'm a much better writer for being a father.
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I'm not happy with just repeating myself.
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Women share everything. It's the blessing we received when we turned down muscles and mustaches." He
— Chris Cleave
A scar means, I survived.
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Our stories are the tellers of us.
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Occurred to him that no one who hadn't been in battle could know what things were worth.
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She knew, now, why her father had not spoken of the last war, nor Alistair of his. It was hardly fair on the living.
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I was brought up to believe that everyone brave is forgiven, but in wartime courage is cheap and clemency out of season. Unless
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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.
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People wonder how they are ever going to change their lives, but really it is frighteningly easy.
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I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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One could always imagine that one's life, though smoldering in parts, might be undamaged in the west.
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My whole life is my work.
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There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.
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You are blind to the present and we are blind to the future
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All the things we make exceptional are merely borrowed from the mundane and must without warning be surrendered to it.
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But life is not inclined to let any of us escape.
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Women fall differently, that's all. We die by the stopping of our hearts, they by the insistence of theirs.
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But the film in your memory, your cannot walk out so easily.Wherever you go it is always playing
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There's eight million people here pretending the others aren't getting on their nerves. I believe it's called civilization.
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I thought there'd be some black people." "Hitler will only fight them in separate units. He's a snob.
— Chris Cleave
There are countries of the world, and regions of one's own mind, where it is unwise to travel.
— Chris Cleave
who, what, where, when, and why?
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April showers bring May flowers
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And thus love makes fools of us all.
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In the end I suppose we lay flowers on a grave because we cannot lay ourselves on it.
— Chris Cleave
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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Perhaps life just turned a person who tried harder into a person who felt they must write it on someone else's report.
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London was perfectly prepared to give him a night out of anywhere on earth, and yet all he asked was to come home.
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Death, finally, was British; life chaotic and foreign. The
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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
Our stories are the tellers of us. -Little Bee
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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.
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Such was the past, after all: it left the present cluttered with objects the survivors were immune to.
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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.
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Let them say whatever gives them comfort.
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There was extraordinary pain behind the ordinary nouns.
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A girl like me gets stopped at immigration.
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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.
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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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They spoke of small things at first, since it was best, when reattaching threads, to begin with the easiest knots.
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I'm really interested in people's decisions.
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hand of a soldier on my arm but I did not turn
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But what good is it to teach a child to count, if you don't show him that he counts for something?
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If I can't write it would be as if I died.
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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
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
April showers bring May flower
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This thing with being lovers, it isn't like being married.
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To survive, you must look good or talk even better.
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To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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You're not asking for input. You are asking your admirer's to prove they are paying attention.
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