“Everything was real, not perfect. And yet that's what had made it so perfect.” — Sarah Winman Imperfection 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
“The world is a different place when you are well, when you are young. The world is beautiful and safe.” — Sarah Winman World is beautiful Copy Share Image
“Truth, as he always said, was overrated, nobody ever won prizes for telling the truth.” — Sarah Winman Telling the truth 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
“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
“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
“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 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 Memory Copy Share Image
“Think about it, I said. We all had to come out of the dark to sing.” — Sarah Winman Dark Copy Share Image
“My father believed it was a cancerous lump, not because my mother was genetically prone to such a thing, but because he… — Sarah Winman Life 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 Death Copy Share Image
“This had always been the worst time when the quiet emptiness could leave him gasping for breath. She was there, his wife,… — Sarah Winman Death 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 Glasses 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 Life Copy Share Image
“The witness of my soul, my shadow in childhood, when dreams were small and attainable for all. When sweets were a penny… — Sarah Winman Childhood Copy Share Image
“And from that moment, I watched her. Watched her with different coloured eyes, until the raging energy that coursed through my body… — Sarah Winman Fear 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 Danger 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 Brotherhood 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 9-11 Copy Share Image