“[My mum] was always like that: grateful for life itself. Her glass was not only half full, it was gold plated with… — Sarah Winman Grateful Copy Share Image
Nothing stays forgotten for long, Elly. Sometimes we simply have to remind the world that we're special and that we're still here. — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
“Their banter was rich and comfortable, their teasing intimate and profound; their 'I love you' without the use of those startling words.” — Sarah Winman Intimate Copy Share Image
“I was never in any danger," she said calmly. "Nothing can ever hurt me. Nothing can take me from me.” — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
She was always like that: grateful for life itself. Her glass was not only half full, it was gold plated with a… — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
“And he uncovered in us a curious need: that we each secretly wanted him to remember us the most. It was strange,… — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
“No amount of self-sufficiency could dispel the craving he still felt for that person we no longer talked about; that person who'd… — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
“..How the numbness in my fingertips travelled to my heart and I never even knew it. I had crushes, I had lovers,… — Sarah Winman Desire Copy Share Image
“And my father went back into the forest and chopped down a tree. The sound of the trunk fracturing and splintering and… — Sarah Winman Nature Copy Share Image
“I pulled the blanket around my shoulders. The sky was dark and vast and empty and not even a plane disturbed that… — Sarah Winman Emptiness Copy Share Image
“And I wonder what the sound of a heart breaking might be. And I think it might be quiet, unperceptively so, and… — Sarah Winman Grief Copy Share Image
“It was left to Nancy and me to pick up the pieces that my brother had become; to resurrect his shrunken spirit… — Sarah Winman Brother Copy Share Image
“... we were all quiet for so long after, touched by the magnitude of it all. This is what we are connected… — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
“float before I could swim. Ellis never believed it was called Dead-Man’s Float, thought I’d made it up. I told him it… — Sarah Winman Dreams Copy Share Image
“Do I believe in an old man in the clouds with a white beard judging us mortals with a moral code from… — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
“I was used to waiting for her. As a child I'd waited for hel all the time, but it never annoyed me… — Sarah Winman Children Copy Share Image
“Três e vinte e oito. A Torre Norte desapareceu. Imagens da empoeirada superfície lunar onde outrora havia uma avenida de pessoas com… — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
“You said I could be anything I wanted when I was older', I said. She smiled and said, 'And you can be.… — Sarah Winman Children Copy Share Image
“Autumn knocks on the window. I pull back the sliding doors and let it in. Lights from the meat market flicker and… — Sarah Winman Autumn Copy Share Image
“I divide my life into two parts. Not really a Before and After, more as if they are bookends, holding together flaccid… — Sarah Winman Adulthood Copy Share Image
“We were solitary and apart. Slept during the day, uncurled at dusk like evening primroses; fragrant and lush. We never wanted to… — Sarah Winman Conquer the world Copy Share Image