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Top 160 Chris Cleave Quotes (2024 Update)

Chris Cleave Quote: “A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “Studying psychology is fun because you’re always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is the story behind the story.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “If your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life, smile and pretend to be a fat man.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “And thus love makes fools of us all.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “We are a nation of glorious cowards, ready to battle any evil but our own.” Her.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “It was the month of May and there was warm sunshine dripping through the holes between the clouds, like the sky was a broken blue bowl and a child was trying to keep honey in it.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “On the girl’s brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and 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 you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don’t always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn’t have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I’m interested in the exceptions.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “However long the moon disappears, someday it must shine again.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well – here is the truth – you have to talk yourself out of it.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other ear it whispers, move on.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “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.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “How I would love to be a British pound. A pound is free to travel to safety, and we are free to watch it go. This is the human triumph. This is called, globalisation. A girl like me gets stopped at immigration, but a pound can leap the turnstiles, and dodge the tackles of those big men with their uniform caps, and jump straight into a waiting airport taxi. Where to, sir? Western Civilisation, my good man, and make it snappy.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “I’m telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “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.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “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.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “You travel here and you travel there, trying to get out from under the cloud, and nothing works, and then one day you realize you’ve been carrying the weather around with you.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “There’s what people say, and there’s what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “People wonder how they are ever going to change their lives, but really it is frighteningly easy.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “Our stories are the tellers of us.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “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.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “We’re often told that we live in a globalized world, and we talk about it all the time, but people don’t stop to think about what it means.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “Oh, you know. The lingering sensation that in pursuit of my own exacting goals and objectives I might not have been as generous in spirit as I could have been with regard to the needs and dreams of the people I cared most about or for whom I was emotionally responsible.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “I thought there’d be some black people.” “Hitler will only fight them in separate units. He’s a snob.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “Exposing corruption, brandishing truth.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “For me and the girls from my village, horror is a disease and we are sick with it. It is not an illness you can cure yourself of by standing up and letting the big red cinema seat fold itself up behind you.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “That is the trouble with happiness-all of it is built on top of something that men want.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “They say that in the hour before an earthquake the clouds hang leaden in the sky, the winds slows to a hot breath, and the birds fall quiet in the trees of the town square. Yes but these are the same portents that precede lunchtime, frankly.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “It is possible to do good things with an imperfect situation.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “But what good is it to teach a child to count, if you don’t show him that he counts for something?”
Chris Cleave Quote: “If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore. It’s always one atom away from being a tragedy.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “In the end I suppose we lay flowers on a grave because we cannot lay ourselves on it.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “I was brought up to believe that everyone brave is forgiven, but in wartime courage is cheap and clemency out of season.”
Chris Cleave Quote: “I was carrying two cargoes. Yes, one of them was horror, but the other one was hope.”
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