239 Quotes by Chris Cleave

I thought there’d be some black people.” “Hitler will only fight them in separate units. He’s a snob.

Why wander through your thoughts when you could drive through them quite recklessly, with sirens?

Of course the children had exchanged labels with one another the second her back was turned. They were only human, even if they hadn’t yet made the effort to become tall.

I’m a much better writer for being a father.

The worst thing would be to decide that it was love, and then to discover – after one was taken – that it hadn’t been. No: the worst thing would be to decide that it wasn’t love, and then to discover years later – old and unconsoled – that it had been. No: the worst thing – the worst, worst thing – was this having to decide.

Bullets is okay. Bullets is quick.

The young see the world that they wish for. The old see the world as it is. You.

It was not warm and not cold. There was no wind and the sky was very low and grey but it wasn’t raining. It was like they’d completely run out of weather.

You live in a world of machines and you dream of things with beating hearts. We dream of machines, because we see where beating hearts have left us.