239 Quotes by Chris Cleave

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

Putting down the power right from the whistle would be ugly and brutal, but it would get the job done. He wanted to tell her that, but this was the thing with coaching: you had to step back at exactly the moment you ached to step forward.

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

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.

Let them say whatever gives them comfort.

Sometimes I feel as lonely as the Queen of England.

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

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 (...) we must see all scars as beauty. (...) Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.

Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.