Chris Cleave Quotes - Page 2

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• You may think that's funny Osama but you never can squeeze every last bit of pride out of a human being. It's like a tube of toothpaste. You can twist it and you can crush it but there's always a tiny bit left isn't there?

  Chris Cleave

  Crush, Pride, Thinking

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Incendiary: A Novel”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

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• What is an adventure? That depends on where you are starting from. Little girls in your country, they hide in the gap between the washing machine and the refrigerator and they make believe they are in the jungle, with green snakes and monkeys all around them. Me and my sister, we used to hide in a gap in the jungle, with green snakes and monkeys all around us, and make believe that we had a washing machine and a refrigerator. You live in a world of machines and you dream off things with beating hearts. We dream of machines, because we see where beating hearts have left us.

  Chris Cleave

  Girl, Dream, Country

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• It was hard not to be full of hope

  Chris Cleave

  Hard

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• I think the recent cluster of WWII novels is so good because we have reached an optimal distance from the war. Just as a lens has its focal length, the novel also has its best distance from the action.

  Chris Cleave

  War, Distance, Thinking

  "'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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• your culture has become sophisticated, like a computer, or a drug that you take for a headache. You can use it, but you cannot explain how it works. Certainly not to girls who stack up their firewood against the side of the house.

  Chris Cleave

  Girl, House, Drug

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• The ways in which we are able to express courage also depend on the hand life deals us.

  Chris Cleave

  Hands, Able, Way

  "'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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• 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

  Cry, Pity, Understood

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.

  Chris Cleave

  Book, Books And Movies, Wwii

  ""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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• You travel here and you travel there, trying to get out from under the cloud, and nothing works, and then one day you realize you've been carrying the weather around with you.

  Chris Cleave

  Clouds, Weather, Trying

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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• Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.

  Chris Cleave

  Doctors, Giving, Pickles

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• In a few breaths' time I will speak some sad words to you. But you must hear them the same way we have agreed to see scars now. Sad words are just another beauty.

  Chris Cleave

  Way, Scar, Speak

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Gold: A Novel”, p.349, Simon and Schuster

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• Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.

  Chris Cleave

  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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• I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a beautiful motto, and it celebrates everything which is the antithesis of death and dissolution and entropy.

  Chris Cleave

  Beautiful, Thinking, Stronger

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• Is it my fault if I do not look like an English girl and I do not talk like a Nigerian? Well, who says an English girl must have skin as pale as the clouds that float across her summers? Who says a Nigerian girl must speak in fallen English...?

  Chris Cleave

  Girl, Summer, Clouds

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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

  Chris Cleave

  Principles, World, Down And

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• It is easier for a rich person to act on their principles than it is for someone with fewer choices (which is why it is all the more disappointing when a wealthy person plays to the crowd).

  Chris Cleave

  Play, Choices, Principles

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

  Chris Cleave

  Writing, Would Be, Died

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• Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well-- here is the truth-- you have to talk yourself out of it.

  Chris Cleave

  Girl, Looks, Stories

  Chris Cleave (2009). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

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• In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center.

  Chris Cleave

  Ears, Whispering, World

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Something I am now convinced of, after researching Everyone Brave, is that none of us is born courageous in all respects.

  Chris Cleave

  Brave, Courageous, Born

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• My whole life is my work.

  Chris Cleave

  Life Is, Whole Life, Whole

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

  Chris Cleave

  Moon, Long, Shining

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Chris Cleave

  Mean, Thinking, Dying

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

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• Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive

  Chris Cleave

  Mean, Stories, Alive

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Mean, Thinking, People

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