Nothing stays forgotten for long, Elly. Sometimes we simply have to remind the world that we're special and that we're still here. — Sarah Winman 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
“[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
“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
“..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
“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
“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
“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
“I divide my life into two parts. Not really a Before and After, more as if they are bookends, holding together flaccid… — Sarah Winman Adulthood 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 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 Brother 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
“Do I believe in an old man in the clouds with a white beard judging us mortals with a moral code from… — Sarah Winman 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
“And for the four remaining days - the ninety-six remaining hours - we mapped out a future away from everything we knew.… — Sarah Winman Alternate realities 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 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
“..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
“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
“I pulled the blanket around my shoulders. The sky was dark and vast and empty and not even a plane disturbed that… — Sarah Winman Emptiness Copy Share Image