98 Quotes by Sarah Winman

"The principles of catching rumours were, in fact, similar to the principals of catching dreams, but because rumour was weightier, the catcher had to be positioned closer to the ground. Rumour flew low, dreams flew high, and somewhere in between were prayers."

"I haven't cried. But sometimes I feel as if my veins are leaking, as if my body is overwhelmed, as if I'm drowning from the inside."

"And they held on tight to that beautiful silent moment before words transported them to the realm of the ordinary, to the realm of the inarticulate and mundane."

"I looked young then and my young was audacious. I lay back in those tiny dusty rooms and let the summer dusk unbutton me."

"The creek was hers now and yet she felt nothing. It had been the longest walk of her life for no one was at the end waiting for her. She slept through winter. Missed Christmas and awoke to a New Year. She felt so lost. Until the first bluebells and ramsons colored the green-brown floor of her world."

"I’m broken by my need for others. By the erotic dance of memory that pounces when loneliness falls."

"If we can accept the laws of the universe, the ebb and flow of joy and tragedy, then we have everything we need to embrace our true freedom."

"Everything was real, not perfect. And yet that's what had made it so perfect."

"She was of another world; different. But by then, secretly, so was I."

"Those left behind prayed constantly for peace but prayers came back with Return to Sender stamped all over them. Only the roll call of the dead grew."