That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not … - Chris Cleave

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All that I can say about Owen Hart, is that I hope that I can be, as good a man as him, so that I can see him again, someday.

Chris Cleave

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.

Missing, Young, Without Hope, Know, Entitled, Future

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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.

Anger, Became, Hate, Reason, Writing

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.

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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All that I can say about Owen Hart, is that I hope that I can be, as good a man as him, so that I can see him again, someday.

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