“Everything was real, not perfect. And yet that's what had made it so perfect.” — Sarah Winman Imperfection Copy Share Image
Memories no matter how small or inconsequential are the pages that define us. — Sarah Winman Inconsequential Copy Share Image
“Everyone had a story of grief. Everyone else's was worse than yours.” — Sarah Winman Death Copy Share Image
“... I wrote about ... my childhood, when dreams were small and attainable for all. When sweets were a penny and god… — Sarah Winman Childhood Copy Share Image
“The world is a different place when you are well, when you are young. The world is beautiful and safe.” — Sarah Winman Different place Copy Share Image
“Truth, as he always said, was overrated, nobody ever won prizes for telling the truth.” — Sarah Winman Overrated Copy Share Image
“A verdade, como ele sempre dizia, era sobrevalorizada; nunca ninguém ganhava prémios por dizer a verdade.” — Sarah Winman Amor Copy Share Image
“It was the final chapter of his breakdown, the moment when his glass drained of everything, and its emptiness awaited only for… — Sarah Winman Breakdown Copy Share Image
“I try hard to be liked, I always have. I try hard to lessen people’s pain. I try hard because I can’t… — Sarah Winman Try hard Copy Share Image
“..And now look. Life changes in ways we can never imagine. Walls come down and people are free. You wait, she says.” — Sarah Winman Life Copy Share Image
“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… — Sarah Winman First love Copy Share Image
“Shut up, Arthur,' said my mother, and he zipped his mouth shut like an infuriating child. Ginger started to laugh. Not at… — Sarah Winman Children Copy Share Image
“... shunning all offers of help, all offers of the more practical... This was his task, he said, and it would be… — Sarah Winman Life changing Copy Share Image
“The first thing we need to find,' said Mr Golan, 'is a reason to live'. ... 'Without a reason, why bother? Existence… — Sarah Winman Existence Copy Share Image
“I walked out and breathed fresh air. I felt the sun on my skin. The world is a different place when you… — Sarah Winman Fresh air Copy Share Image
“For I knew already that something had taken me from me, and had replaced it with a desperate longing for a time… — Sarah Winman Fear Copy Share Image
“You had to translate his actions, for they were seldom accompanied by words, because his world was a quiet world; a disconnected,… — Sarah Winman World Disconnected 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 Craving 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
“Soon the river would narrow and carve through water rushes and overhanging trees still dripping with weed and flotsam from the previous… — Sarah Winman Trees Copy Share Image
“You see, that's who you are, Joe. All these things. That's the person I know, and through him is the way you'll… — Sarah Winman Knew Copy Share Image
“Questionei-me quanto achariam os raptores que ele valia; quanto achariam os meus pais que eu valia e interroguei-me sobre se o valor… — Sarah Winman Amor Copy Share Image
“He started to do that, started to inform me of everything; the inconsequential, the meaningful; conversations that ended in a cul-de-sac of… — Sarah Winman Communication Copy Share Image
“I'd been feeling like this for a while, the continual looking back, the stuckness of it all. I blamed it on the… — Sarah Winman Change Copy Share Image
“I haven't cried. But sometimes I feel as if my veins are leaking, as if my body is overwhelmed, as if I'm… — Sarah Winman Grief Copy Share Image
“[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
“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
“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
“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 Life 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
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