Chris Cleave Quotes

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• On the girl's brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

  Chris Cleave

  Girl, Stars, Healing

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

  Chris Cleave

  Mean, Dying, Doe

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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

  Chris Cleave

  Faces, Turns

  Chris Cleave (2009). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• Courage is a muscle that develops through use. It's no use waiting for some inner fire to conveniently become apparent at the moment of crisis - that's cartoon stuff.

  Chris Cleave

  Fire, Waiting, Cartoon

  "'We Don't Know Our Hearts Until Life Puts Us to the Test'--Chris Cleave on 'Everyone Brave Is Forgiven'". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 31, 2016.

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

  Chris Cleave

  Life Is, Affair, Current Affairs

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.

  Chris Cleave

  Little Bee, Refugee, Refuge

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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

  Chris Cleave

  Children, Sick, Olympics

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Gold”, p.284, Hachette UK

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• I think all of us are intrigued to imagine what we as individuals would become, if we were ever tested as hard as that golden generation was.

  Chris Cleave

  Thinking, Generations, Golden

  "We Don't Know Our Hearts Until Life Puts Us to the Test"--Chris Cleave on "Everyone Brave Is Forgiven". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 31, 2016.

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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.

  Chris Cleave

  Brave, Sometimes, Easy

  ""We Don't Know Our Hearts Until Life Puts Us to the Test"--Chris Cleave on 'Everyone Brave Is Forgiven'". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 31, 2016.

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• We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.

  Chris Cleave

  Mean, Secret, Dying

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

  Chris Cleave

  Writing, Talking, Stories

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.

  Chris Cleave

  Mean, Thinking, Bravery

  "'We Don't Know Our Hearts Until Life Puts Us to the Test'--Chris Cleave on 'Everyone Brave Is Forgiven'". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 31, 2016.

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• It was the month of May and there was warm sunshine dripping through the holes between the clouds, like the sky was a broken blue bowl and a child was trying to keep honey in it.

  Chris Cleave

  Children, Sunshine, Clouds

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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

  Chris Cleave

  Summer, Reality, Refugee

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• We must constantly dare ourselves in the small things, until courage becomes a habit of mind that will serve us when we are unexpectedly tested.

  Chris Cleave

  Mind, Habit, Dare

  "'We Don't Know Our Hearts Until Life Puts Us to the Test'--Chris Cleave on 'Everyone Brave Is Forgiven'". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 31, 2016.

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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.

  Chris Cleave

  Journey, People, Brave

  "'We Don't Know Our Hearts Until Life Puts Us to the Test'--Chris Cleave on 'Everyone Brave Is Forgiven'". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 31, 2016.

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

  Chris Cleave

  Men, Faces, Your Face

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.291, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Grief, Moving, Ears

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Grief, Heart, Mind

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• At this point in time the war [ WWII] is close enough to still feel hotly personal to a writer, yet far enough away so that jingoism and heroics are no longer required.

  Chris Cleave

  War, Jingoism, Enough

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.

  Chris Cleave

  Bad Day, Giving, Lazy

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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.

  Chris Cleave

  Country, Suffering, Horror

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

  Chris Cleave

  Stories

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• Our stories are the tellers of us.

  Chris Cleave

  Stories

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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

  Chris Cleave

  Two, Horror, Little Bee

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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