Memories no matter how small or inconsequential are the pages that define us. — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
“Everything was real, not perfect. And yet that's what had made it so perfect.” — Sarah Winman Imperfection Copy Share Image
“<...> maybe the need to be remembered is stronger than the need to remember.” — Sarah Winman Life 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 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
“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
“A verdade, como ele sempre dizia, era sobrevalorizada; nunca ninguém ganhava prémios por dizer a verdade.” — Sarah Winman Amor Copy Share Image
“Truth, as he always said, was overrated, nobody ever won prizes for telling the truth.” — Sarah Winman 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 Copy Share Image
“But it was my humanness that led me to seek, that's all. Led us all to seek. A simple need to belong… — Sarah Winman 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
Without reason, why bother? Existence needs purpose: to be able to endure the pain of life with dignity; to give us 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
“You had to translate his actions, for they were seldom accompanied by words, because his world was a quiet world; a disconnected,… — Sarah Winman 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“And from that moment, I watched her. Watched her with different coloured eyes, until the raging energy that coursed through my body… — Sarah Winman Envy 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 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
“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
“Think about it, I said. We all had to come out of the dark to sing.” — Sarah Winman Dark Copy Share Image
“Everyone had a story of grief. Everyone else's was worse than yours.” — Sarah Winman Death 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
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
“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
