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Grief is a private thing. It takes as long as it takes.
"History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier."
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
"A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise."
"The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one."
"Stories have the power to change how we see ourselves and others."
"I wanted to write about the Windrush generation because their story is part of British history, but it's a story that hasn't been told enough."
All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I’m not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.
Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them.
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
"Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn."
"The stories we don’t tell are often the ones that matter most."
"The most powerful stories are the ones that refuse to be forgotten."
"History is not just facts and dates; it’s the lives of people who lived them."