We don't know our hearts until life puts us to the test, and WWII fascinates because it was … - Chris Cleave

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Time and the timeless dimension co-exist here, now in this very moment that we're living, this very moment that we're speaking.

Chris Cleave

We don't know our hearts until life puts us to the test, and WWII fascinates because it was the last time everyone was simultaneously pushed to their limit.

Heart, Hearts, Know, Lasts, Test, Tests

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I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.

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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.

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I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.

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At this point in time the war [ WWII] is close enough to still feel hotly personal to a writer, yet far enough away so that jingoism and heroics are no longer required.

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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.

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