I'll tell you this, lad: A tattoo says more of a fellow looking at it than it can do of the man who's got it on his back.

- Sarah Hall

At night, in the garden, it occurs to you that it might have been your heart that left you as you reached the capital. Your heart might not have trav…

- Sarah Hall

Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses.

- Sarah Hall

All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law o…

- Sarah Hall

Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.

- Sarah Hall

The man had added to his body in a way that was brave and timeless and beyond adornment.

- Sarah Hall

You’ve been wondering lately when the moment is that somebody is truly lost to you.

- Sarah Hall

People went through life like well handled jugs, collecting chips and scrapes and stains from wear and tear, from holding and pouring life.

- Sarah Hall

I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power.

- Sarah Hall