# Quote — Chris Cleave, The Other Hand

> I’ve spent two years denying what happened on that beach. Ignoring it, letting it fester. That’s what Andrew did too, and it killed him in the end. I’m not going to let it kill me and Charlie

- Author: [Chris Cleave](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chris-cleave.md)
- Book: [The Other Hand](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chris-cleave/the-other-hand.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Other_Hand#Quotes) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/chris-cleave/the-other-hand/ive-spent-two

## More from this book

> Save [Little Bee] and there’s a whole world of them behind her. A whole swarm of Little Bees, coming here to feed.”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chris-cleave/the-other-hand/save-little-bee.md)

> I smiled and watched Charlie running away with the children , with his head down and his happy arms spinning like propellers, and I cried with joy when the children all began to play together in the sparkling foam of the waves that broke between worlds at the point. It was beautiful […] and that is a word I do not need to explain to you, because now we are all speaking the same language

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chris-cleave/the-other-hand/i-smiled-and.md)

> In place of my finger is a stump, a phantom digit that used to be responsible for the E, D, and C keys on my laptop. I can’t rely on E, D, and C anymore. They go missing when I need them most. Pleased becomes please. Ecstasies becomes stasis.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chris-cleave/the-other-hand/in-place-of-my-finger.md)