[My mum] was always like that: grateful for life itself. Her glass was not only half full, it was gold plated with a permanent refill.
Sarah WinmanYou can hold onto anything to make you carry on.
Sarah WinmanTag: inspirational
I pulled the blanket around my shoulders. The sky was dark and vast and empty and not even a plane disturbed that sullen stillness, not even a star. The emptiness above was now mine within. It was a part of me, like a freckle, like a bruise. Like a middle name now one acknowledged.
Sarah WinmanTag: life-changing
For I knew already that something had taken me from me, and had replaced it with a desperate longing for a time before; a time before fear; a time before shame. And now that knowledge had a voice that rose from the depths of my years and howled into the night sky like a wounded animal longing for home.
Sarah WinmanDon't worry. It'll all come good in the end. Always does.
Sarah WinmanTag: inspirational
... shunning all offers of help, all offers of the more practical... This was his task, he said, and it would be carried out alone. Penance, my brother reminded me, was a lonely place to be.
Sarah WinmanTag: life-changing
I was never in any danger," she said calmly. "Nothing can ever hurt me. Nothing can take me from me.
Sarah WinmanTag: self-empowerment
... I wrote about ... my childhood, when dreams were small and attainable for all. When sweets were a penny and god was a rabbit.
Sarah WinmanTag: growing-up childhood life-lessons
- Mas tu disseste que quando fosse mais velha podia ser aquilo que quisesse - disse-lhe.
Ela sorriu e respondeu:
- E podes ser. Mas não é muito fácil tornarmo-nos judeus.
- Eu sei - respondi desolada. - Preciso de um número.
Ela parou subitamente de sorrir.
Tag: jewish
A penitência, recordou o meu irmão, é um lugar muito solitário.
Sarah WinmanTag: penance
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