Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood. — Sarah Hall Conditions Copy Share Image
“Personal effects: how irrelevant they are, how sad, how lost, how vagrant, without the force that gives them purpose.” — Sarah Hall Death Copy Share Image
Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses. — Sarah Hall Dishonesty Copy Share Image
“Life conspires to plant us in the funniest of gardens where the trees need an especial form of tending” — Sarah Hall Flower Copy Share Image
“That boy may have been born on third base but he sure as shit ain’t scored a triple.” — Sarah Hall Baseball Copy Share Image
“Like a dog defeated in a frenzied circle by its own tail and slowing and realizing then that the tail it was… — Sarah Hall Metaphor Copy Share Image
I'll tell you this, lad: A tattoo says more of a fellow looking at it than it can do of the man… — Sarah Hall Can do Copy Share Image
There are stories told to him only at this time of year. Fantastic, magical stories, the old Hollier in the woods finding… — Sarah Hall Berries Copy Share Image
“One thing I will say, they often take it better than a man. Pain, that is. Probably the residue of tolerance from… — Sarah Hall Funny Copy Share Image
You didn’t understand what he was saying, until he kissed you. It was a kiss of such complicity, of such uncomplicated sympathy,… — Sarah Hall Complicity Copy Share Image
“We should not forget that when we limp away afflicted through the spirit, it is not to the factory gates or to… — Sarah Hall Avenues Copy Share Image
“To be comfortable inside one’s sadness is not valueless. This too will pass. All things tend towards transience, mutability. It is in… — Sarah Hall Sadness Copy Share Image
“I lost the ability to fear and panic. Instead I felt practical and causal. I had never known time to pass so… — Sarah Hall Anxiety Copy Share Image
At night, in the garden, it occurs to you that it might have been your heart that left you as you reached… — Sarah Hall Bars Copy Share Image
“There were times when initial introductions were so vested with something other as to confuse and distract and entrance both parties, Cy… — Sarah Hall Life Copy Share Image
“You’ve found that there is something that can make you feel, and make you feel present: sex. Not the routine, dusk-and-dawn sex… — Sarah Hall Life Copy Share Image
“We should not forget that when we limp away afflicted through the spirit, it is not to the factory gates or to… — Sarah Hall Peace Copy Share Image
“The show brought Claudia sadness finer than any requiem or any gravestone or anything beautiful or sorrowful that she could think of.… — Sarah Hall Heart Copy Share Image
“People were made up of shit and piss and phlegm and bits and pieces of experience.” — Sarah Hall Bits and pieces Copy Share Image
I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly… — Sarah Hall Books Copy Share Image
People went through life like well handled jugs, collecting chips and scrapes and stains from wear and tear, from holding and pouring… — Sarah Hall Chips Copy Share Image
The man had added to his body in a way that was brave and timeless and beyond adornment. — Sarah Hall Adornment Copy Share Image
“Over the coun-ter, she might let you mount-her, but in the morning, there’ll be no more whoring, as its off to the… — Sarah Hall Cock Copy Share Image
“The two of you are different now, calmer. There is still sex, occasionally, but is no longer a priority to seduce or… — Sarah Hall Seduce Copy Share Image
You’ve been wondering lately when the moment is that somebody is truly lost to you. — Sarah Hall Lost Copy Share Image
“A month in and it seemed to CY that he was an explorer summiting the foothill of an a bizarre and primitive… — Sarah Hall Explorer Copy Share Image
“He told her the flowers in her painting contained exactly the purple substance of the flowers on the desk in front of… — Sarah Hall Butterflies Copy Share Image
All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the… — Sarah Hall Children Copy Share Image
“She did not make monsters of us. She simply gave us the power to remake ourselves into those inviolable creatures the God… — Sarah Hall Ruthlessness Copy Share Image
“Elliot Rawley was a drinker, Cy’s mother had been right. And he was a poor drinker. One that let the demons of… — Sarah Hall Drinking Copy Share Image