“ Putting down the power right from the whistle would be ugly and brutal, but it would get the job done. He wanted to tell her that, but this was the thing with coaching: you had to step back at exactly… Chris Cleave
“ 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 bru… Chris Cleave
“ It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by t… Chris Cleave
“ When death comes you do not stay for one minute in the place it has visited. Many things arrive after death-sadness, questions, and policemen- and none of these can be answered when your papers are no… Chris Cleave
“ ...disaster, when it is quite sure of its own strength, will announce itself by hardly moving its lips... Chris Cleave
“ 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
“ 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 (...) we must see all scars as beauty. (...) Because take it from me, a scar… Chris Cleave
“ I did not want to tell her what happened, but I had to now. 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… Chris Cleave
“ There are countries of the world, and regions of one's own mind, where it is unwise to travel. Chris Cleave
“ They spoke of small things at first, since it was best, when reattaching threads, to begin with the easiest knots. Chris Cleave
“ How well it had suited me, that absolute license to march up to evildoers and demand who, what, where, when and why? Chris Cleave
“ Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dess? I though that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is… Chris Cleave
“ Before you bombed my boy Osama I always thought an explosion was such a quick thing but now I know better. The flash is over very fast but the fire catches hold inside you and the noise never stops…I… Chris Cleave
“ After the war of course it will be like the start of spring, which is always so brilliantly sudden. The leaves will burst back onto the trees and close the gaps between the branches and we shall be st… Chris Cleave
“ He really had experienced every tiniest increment of time in the four decades since then, and yet here he was surprised to be suddenly old and crippled. Turned out the rope didn't care if you noticed… Chris Cleave
