239 Quotes by Chris Cleave

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

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

And thus love makes fools of us all.

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...?

Death, of course, is a refuge. It's where you go when a new name, or a mask and cape, can no longer hide you from yourself. It's where you run to when none of the principalities of your conscience will grant you asylum.

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

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.

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

That is the trouble with happiness-all of it is built on top of something that men want.