98 Quotes by Sarah Winman

Beautiful art opens our eyes to the beauty of the world, Ulysses. It repositions our sight and judgement. Captures forever that which is fleeting.

Art versus humanity is not the question, Ulysses. One doesn’t exist without the other. Art is the antidote.

But most of all I wrote about him - now called Max - my brother, our friend, missing now for 10 days. And I wrote about what I’d lost that morning. The witness of my soul, my shadow in childhood when dreams were small and attainable for all. When sweets were a penny and God was a rabbit.

You can stay that side and I'll stay over here. And we won't touch. We'll just be company for one another, and company at any age is good.

He needed to know everyone was safe because without them he was nothing.

No ghosts tonight? she said.Are there usually any? I said.Would that be a comfort?I think it might, I said.

He thought they looked so happy, and he thought they were family, and he wanted to show that in the photograph. They were all that mattered.

I gasp. A hand down the back of my jeans has found my crack. A blast of poppers hits my nose and my heart thumps to the bass notes of desire.

Their banter was rich and comfortable, their teasing intimate and profound; their 'I love you' without the use of those startling words.