239 Quotes by Chris Cleave

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    Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

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    It is possible to do good things with an imperfect situation.

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    This was always my trouble when I was learning to speak your language. Every word can defend itself. Just when you go to grab it, it can split into two separate meanings so the understanding closes on empty air. I admire you people. You are like sorcerers and you have made your language as safe as your money.

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    There was extraordinary pain behind the ordinary nouns.

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    Look at us, won’t you? We are nation of glorious cowards, ready to battle any evil but our own.

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    Life took longer to reassemble than it did to blow apart, but that didn’t mean it wouldn’t be lovely, providing that one remembered to go for country walks, and to tune the wireless to music.

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    Me and Nkiruka, we watched through the window until the moon grew an extraordinary size, so big that it filled the window frame. We could see the face of the man in the moon, so close that we could see the madness in his eyes.

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    The Americans were tall men on full rations and it clearly made no sense to them that exhaustion should have the last word in the common language of English. “How come?” Mary heard them yelling to each other, over the noise of the engines. “How come they just left it broken like this?

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    You are blind to the present and we are blind to the future.

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