Chris Cleave
Chris Cleave
Chris Cleaveis a British writer and journalist...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
stories
We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.
life-is affair current-affairs
Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.
stories
Our stories are the tellers of us.
hard
It was hard not to be full of hope
weather clouds trying
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.
mean thinking dying
A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
cry pity understood
Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't deserve my own pity.
writing would-be died
If I can't write it would be as if I died.
missing young without-hope
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.
moving grief tongue
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.
decisions-we-make splits life-is
Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.
girl looks stories
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.
andrew
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
way scar speak
In a few breaths' time I will speak some sad words to you. But you must hear them the same way we have agreed to see scars now. Sad words are just another beauty.....