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141 " Eighteen months ago, the phone rang. Yes? I said. What now? I said. What— But there was silence. G? Silence. He began to cry. Talk to me, I said. Silence. I’ve got it, he said. It: the shorthand we all understood. I said I’d never leave his side. "
― Sarah Winman , Tin Man
142 " sharing a roll-up cigarette that at first we thought was a spliff but soon realized couldn’t be because my mother still had her top on. "
― Sarah Winman , When God Was a Rabbit
143 " I’M IN G’S ROOM watching the late news. The BBC reporting from Germany. The Berlin Wall is down and the gates are open. Cars are honking, friends and families are reunited and champagne is drunk. Chloe comes in and brings me a tea. She puts her arm around me and says, nodding to the TV, No one thought this was possible ten years ago. And now look. Life changes in ways we can never imagine. Walls come down and people are free. You wait, she says. I know what she’s trying to say: Hope. "
144 " I remember being collected from school by Mrs Deakin, who bought me sweets on the way home and let me play with a dog for as long as I wanted. "
145 " We’re still living in the footprints of the French Revolution, of Hitler and Mussolini. Scratch the surface of the varnish and it raises its head again. Evil was defeated but it never went away. This is something we must live with, Ulysses. "
― Sarah Winman , Still Life
146 " Once is enough. We just need to know what the heart’s capable of, Evelyn.And do you know what it’s capable of?I do. Grace and fury. "
147 " Art versus humanity is not the question, Ulysses. One doesn’t exist without the other. Art is the antidote. Is that enough to make it important? Well, yes, I think it is. "
148 " What’s going on?” sang Marvin Gaye, but no one had an answer. "
149 " Men need brains, "
150 " Taidat olla sellainen ihminen, joka kirjoittaa sen sijaan, että eläisi. Olenko oikeassa? "
― Sarah Winman
151 " I’ve lived under the fickle movement of planetary adventure. I’ve encountered long dark nights when the sirens sound. But the moment stars align, and the shift of sweet wind greets you of a morning, this is when mystery becomes knowing and fortune becomes love— "
152 " Unknown to me, she was the product of missionaries who had spent a lifetime preaching the Lord’s work in an inhospitable part of Africa, only to have found that the Muslims had got there first. "
153 " Petrichor. "
154 " 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, she said. "
155 " He wanted to tell her that nothing felt right and he missed his home because how could he make a home in a land that whispered angry words? How could he make a home in a land that didn´t have her? "
― Sarah Winman , A Year of Marvellous Ways
156 " Santissima Annunziata in the north, Santo Spirito in the south, Santa Maria Novella over in the west, and Santa Croce in the east. "
157 " 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. "
158 " the responsibility of privilege must always be to raise others up. "
159 " The lady poet laughed, She is smitten already! You have caught the fever of Firenze! Oh, my dear Miss Skinner, there is no turning back. You shall die with those lights in your eyes. Miss Skinner has turned looking into loving! The first rule of art. Looking into loving! Oh welcome, my dear! Welcome "
160 " -Pero es difícil, ¿no crees? En realidad apesta. El esconderse y toda esa mierda.-Entonces no lo hagas -replicó ella-. No te escondas. "