239 Quotes by Chris Cleave

But the film in your memory, you cannot walk out of it so easily. Wherever you go it is always playing. So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.

In the history of the world there was not one example of a man ever having written a satisfactory letter to a woman who mattered to him.

It is good to live like this. Once you are ready to die, you do not suffer so badly from the horror.

Before, life had been a tradition, a tendency to forgiveness, a regression to the mean. The city she loved had been one of plane trees that had grown for three centuries, of bridges improved as horse gave way to steam, of great coordinated endeavors in which every convergent component could be relied upon; of symphonies. But now any light could be snuffed without warning.

Don’t you think we shall all be kinder to one another? I hope one’s class will matter less and one’s convictions more. I hope we might be more inclined to pardon one another for our errors with both.

Perhaps this was what it was to grow up: this realization that the world was already staffed with people and that one was not particularly needed. She.

Oh, thought Tom, so it finishes as quickly as this. All the things we make exceptional are merely borrowed from the mundane and must without warning be surrendered to it.

We are a nation of glorious cowards, ready to battle any evil but our own.” Her.

Just beyond your sight, life might be moving in ways that were moments away from being revealed to you.