--- title: "1 Gasping Quotes By Sarah Winman" description: "1 Gasping quotes by Sarah Winman. Plus more from Sarah Winman and more Gasping sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/550/sarah-winman-10153_death_this-had-always-been-the-worst-time-when_2170983.jpg" --- > [“This had always been the worst time when the quiet emptiness could leave him gasping for breath. She was there, his wife, a peripheral shadow moving across a doorway, or in the reflection of a window, and he had to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-winman/this-had-always-been-the-worst-time-when-the-quiet-emptiness-could/) [Sarah Winman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-winman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/550/sarah-winman-10153_death_this-had-always-been-the-worst-time-when_2170983.jpg) ## More by Sarah Winman > [You can hold onto anything to make you carry on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-winman/you-can-hold-onto-anything-to-make-you-carry-on/) [Sarah Winman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-winman/) > [“... I wrote about ... my childhood, when dreams were small and attainable for all. When sweets were a penny and god was a rabbit.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-winman/i-wrote-about-my-childhood-when-dreams-were-small-and-attainable-for/) [Sarah Winman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-winman/) > [“Autumn knocks on the window. I pull back the sliding doors and let it in. Lights from the meat market flicker and car lights…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-winman/autumn-knocks-on-the-window-i-pull-back-the-sliding-doors-and-let-it/) [Sarah Winman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-winman/) > [“The first thing we need to find,' said Mr Golan, 'is a reason to live'. ... 'Without a reason, why bother? Existence needs purpose:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-winman/the-first-thing-we-need-to-find-said-mr-golan-is-a-reason-to-live/) [Sarah Winman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-winman/) > [“You said I could be anything I wanted when I was older', I said. She smiled and said, 'And you can be. But it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-winman/you-said-i-could-be-anything-i-wanted-when-i-was-older-i-said-she/) [Sarah Winman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-winman/) > [“He started to do that, started to inform me of everything; the inconsequential, the meaningful; conversations that ended in a cul-de-sac of unanswerable rhetoric.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-winman/he-started-to-do-that-started-to-inform-me-of-everything-the/) [Sarah Winman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-winman/) > [ “\[My mum\] was always like that: grateful for life itself. Her glass was not only half full, it was gold plated with a permanent… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-winman/my-mum-was-always-like-that-grateful-for-life-itself-her-glass-was/) [Sarah Winman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-winman/) > [“It was the final chapter of his breakdown, the moment when his glass drained of everything, and its emptiness awaited only for choices to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-winman/it-was-the-final-chapter-of-his-breakdown-the-moment-when-his-glass/) [Sarah Winman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-winman/) > [“There's something about first love, isn't there? she said. It's untouchable to those who played no part in it. But it's the measure of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-winman/there-s-something-about-first-love-isn-t-there-she-said-it-s/) [Sarah Winman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-winman/) > [Memories no matter how small or inconsequential are the pages that define us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-winman/memories-no-matter-how-small-or-inconsequential-are-the-pages-that/) [Sarah Winman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-winman/) > [“And I wonder what the sound of a heart breaking might be. And I think it might be quiet, unperceptively so, and not dramatic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-winman/and-i-wonder-what-the-sound-of-a-heart-breaking-might-be-and-i-think/) [Sarah Winman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-winman/) > [“I'd been feeling like this for a while, the continual looking back, the stuckness of it all. I blamed it on the coming New…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-winman/i-d-been-feeling-like-this-for-a-while-the-continual-looking-back-the/) [Sarah Winman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-winman/) > [“Everyone had a story of grief. Everyone else's was worse than yours.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-winman/everyone-had-a-story-of-grief-everyone-else-s-was-worse-than-yours/) [Sarah Winman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-winman/) > [“I thought that probably I was worth more when I was younger.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-winman/i-thought-that-probably-i-was-worth-more-when-i-was-younger/) [Sarah Winman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-winman/) > [“... shunning all offers of help, all offers of the more practical... This was his task, he said, and it would be carried out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-winman/shunning-all-offers-of-help-all-offers-of-the-more-practical-this-was/) [Sarah Winman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-winman/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/gasping/sarah-winman/#itemlist", "name": "1 Gasping Quotes By Sarah Winman", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“This had always been the worst time when the quiet emptiness could leave him gasping for breath. She was there, his wife, a peripheral shadow moving across a doorway, or in the reflection of a window, and he had to stop looking for her. And the whiskey helped – helped him walk past her when the fire was doused. 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