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181 " People knew as they lay alone at night that this was the beginning, the raw beginning that was to be their Present, their Now, their Future, their Memory. "
― Sarah Winman , When God Was a Rabbit
182 " smells of linseed and coffee, brushes standing in olive cans, wildflowers too. A paint-splattered bed in the corner and me making Martinis naked, as G painted "
― Sarah Winman , Tin Man
183 " Fear was catching. Even the immune were suffering. "
184 " thinking, All this fuss over nothing. I’ve never felt so clear. "
185 " Talking bollocks because of the drugs. "
186 " her, I’ll help you find Eddie. Massimo found "
― Sarah Winman , Still Life
187 " Soon the river would narrow and carve through water rushes and overhanging trees still dripping with weed and flotsam from the previous high tide; it was the stretch I never trusted, the stretch of river that pulled my imagination as taut as rope around a cleat, and where I saw thick gnarled roots crawling across the mudflats "
188 " He was on firmer ground with apples. "
189 " Cress couldn’t read till he was thirty. Lot of shame in that empty space. "
190 " . I have had three loves, Drake. At the time I thought it was enough, but looking back I think there might have been room for more. I’ve seen life expand like a womb to accommodate love. "
― Sarah Winman , The Sarah Winman Collection: WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT and A YEAR OF MARVELLOUS WAYS
191 " Reflexology is the new sex, I say. "
192 " And Ellis remembered thinking he would never meet anyone like him again, and in that acknowledgement, he knew, was love. "
193 " When he stopped, she bent down and kissed him on the head and said, Thank you. Because everything she held on and everything she believed in came together in that unexpected moment. The simple belief that men and boys were capable of beautiful things. "
194 " This was the London Ulysses walked back into. Winter 1946, two months before the big snows came. A city gray and struggling, like an old fella outside the Mission, all grace and has-been. "
195 " He made me feel who I'd been all those years ago. [...] I became the boy I'd once been, living out the fantasy of a long-gone youth. "
196 " Each job, to me, is proof that I still can care. "
197 " The world is a different place when you are well, when you are young. The world is beautiful and safe. "
198 " 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. "
199 " 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. "
200 " What was it about these roads that plunged him into a state of childlike anxiety? The light had virtually disappeared by the time he reached the front door, and a feeling of foreboding had taken hold. "