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Category: Chris Cleave

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 the moment you ached to step forward.

coaching, competition, parenting, racing, restraint, winning

Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.

caring, caring-for-others, caring-loved-one, illness, parenting, sacrifice

For me and the girls from my village, horror is a disease and we are sick with it. It is not an illness you can cure yourself of by standing up and letting the big red cinema seat fold itself up behind you.

Mary leaned back, exhaled, and watched her smoke rise. ‘What sort of man do you want anyway?'”Tall. Funny. Never came top of his class or pulled the wings off bees.””Yes, but I mean really? When all of this is over, and assuming we win -” …Hilda snorted. “(I) just want a tall man and a stiff drink. You could even swap the adjectives.

On the girl’s brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and 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 you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

There are countries of the world, and regions of one’s own mind, where it is unwise to travel.

little-bee, travel, traveling, unwise

How well it had suited me, that absolute license to march up to evildoers and demand who, what, where, when and why?

journalism, journalists

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 what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. “We must see all scars as beauty. OKay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on dying. A scar means, I survivied.

This life is a deafening roar but listen. You could hear a pin drop.

life, listening

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 live in an inferno where you could shiver with cold Osama. This life is a deafening roar but listen. You could hear a pin drop.

thought-provoking

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 startled – shan’t we? – s we are startled at the end of every winter. We shall think: oh, I had quite forgotten there were three livable seasons.

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.