Our stories are the tellers of us. - Chris Cleave

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It was about being wanted, it was about winning, and it was about my passion for the game. I just loved it. I absolutely loved to compete and to step out onto that football field with my teammates.

Chris Cleave

Our stories are the tellers of us.

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

Fit, Know, Soul, World

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.

Anger, Became, Hate, Reason, Writing

I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.

Built, Woman, Wreckage

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.

Enough, Jingoism, Longer, War, Wwii

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.

Ears, Grief, Move, Moving, Return

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