You didn’t understand what he was saying, until he kissed you. It was a kiss of such complicity, of such uncomplicated sympathy, that you felt for the first time not alone in your suffering.
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
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
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…
Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses. - Sarah Hall
Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses.
The man had added to his body in a way that was brave and timeless and beyond adornment. - Sarah Hall
The man had added to his body in a way that was brave and timeless and beyond adornment.
Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood. - Sarah Hall
Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.
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
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…
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
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.
You’ve been wondering lately when the moment is that somebody is truly lost to you. - Sarah Hall
You’ve been wondering lately when the moment is that somebody is truly lost to you.
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
People went through life like well handled jugs, collecting chips and scrapes and stains from wear and tear, from holding and pouring life.
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