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41 " —¿Que si creo en un anciano de barba blanca que vive en las nubes y juzga a los mortales con un código moral de diez mandamientos? ¡Cielo santo, querida Elly, claro que no! Me habría expulsado de esta vida hace años por mi alocada historia. ¿Que si creo en un misterio, en el inexplicable fenómeno que constituye la vida misma? ¿Que si creo en algo más grande que nosotros y que ilumina la inconsecuencia de nuestras vidas? ¿En algo que nos da una razón por la que luchar y la humildad para purificarnos y empezar de nuevo? Entonces sí, sí que creo en él. Es la fuente del arte, de la belleza, del amor, y ofrece la bondad suprema a la humanidad. Esto es Dios para mí. Esto es la vida, y es en esto en lo que creo. "
― Sarah Winman , When God Was a Rabbit
42 " She trekked back across the meadow and down through the trees in possession of the oldest secret known to man. She sat on the mooring stone and surrendered immediately to the down of night. She hadn't slept long before she suddenly jolted awake. Thought she had heard the sweet call of a lark ascending. Unaware that it was actually the sound of her soul awakening. "
― Sarah Winman , A Year of Marvellous Ways
43 " 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. "
― Sarah Winman , Tin Man
44 " Marvellous blossomed, having quite forgotten what an exciting and necessary jolt being needed gave. "
45 " Pero sobre todo escribí acerca de él, que ahora se llamaba Max, acerca de mi hermano, nuestro amigo, que llevaba diez días desaparecido. Y escribí acerca de lo que había perdido aquella mañana: el testigo de mi alma, mi sombra de la infancia, cuando los sueños eran pequeños y alcanzables para todos; cuando los dulces costaban un penique y Dios era un conejo. "
46 " —¿Crees que un conejo podría ser Dios? —le pregunté a Arthur distraídamente.—No existe absolutamente ninguna razón por la que un conejo no pueda ser Dios. "
47 " Memories no matter how small or inconsequential are the pages that define us. "
48 " 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 measure of all that follows. "
49 " And he uncovered in us a curious need: that we each secretly wanted him to remember us the most. It was strange, both vital and flawed, until I realised that maybe the need to be remembered is stronger than the need to remember. "
50 " Things happen. To everyone. No one escapes. "
51 " 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. "
52 " I am here but I am not yours. "
53 " Men and boys should be capable of beautiful things. "
54 " Truth, as he always said, was overrated, nobody ever won prizes for telling the truth. "
55 " You see, that's who you are, Joe. All these things. That's the person I know, and through him is the way you'll know me, because connected to all these things are moments, and for so many of them, I was there. And that's the thing that hurts so much...You see, you were the only person who knew everything. Because you were there. You were my witness. And you make sense of the fucked-up mess I become every now and then. And I could at least look at you and think, at least he knows why I am the way I am. There were reasons. But I can't do that anymore and I feel so lonely. "
56 " I try hard to be liked, I always have. I try hard to lessen people’s pain. I try hard because I can’t face my own. "
57 " The first thing we need to find,' said Mr Golan, 'is a reason to live'....'Without a reason, why bother? Existence needs purpose: to be able to endure the pain of life with dignity; to give us a reason to continue. The meaning must enter our hearts, not out heads. We must understand the meaning of our suffering. "
58 " And I remember thinking, how cruel it was that our plans were out there somewhere. Another version of our future, out there somewhere, in perpetual orbit. "
59 " Everything was real, not perfect. And yet that's what had made it so perfect. "
60 " I said to him that just because you can’t remember, doesn’t mean the past isn’t out there. All those precious moments are still there somewhere. "