"Shut up, Arthur,' said my mother, and he zipped his mouth shut like an infuriating child.Ginger started to laugh. Not at anything in particular, but just because Ginger was stoned."
- Sarah Winman
"Their banter was rich and comfortable, their teasing intimate and profound; their 'I love you' without the use of those startling words."
"Emotions embarassed her except when she sang. My dad said that was exactly why she sang."
"I walked out and breathed fresh air. I felt the sun on my skin. The world is a different place when you are well, when you are young. The world is beautiful and safe. I said hello to the gatekeeper. H..."
"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."
"... I wrote about ... my childhood, when dreams were small and attainable for all. When sweets were a penny and god was a rabbit."
"I pulled the blanket around my shoulders. The sky was dark and vast and empty and not even a plane disturbed that sullen stillness, not even a star. The emptiness above was now mine within. It was a p..."
"... shunning all offers of help, all offers of the more practical... This was his task, he said, and it would be carried out alone. Penance, my brother reminded me, was a lonely place to be."
"There was no point in tears outliving eyes, so she let them fall."
"I wondered if all women did with other women was lie and hug."