Sarah Painter Quotes & Sayings

Throwing things is very good for the soul. — Sarah Painter

I watched her leave with a curious mixture of relief and terror. I was alone again. Fear clutched at my chest and I wanted to call her back. I wondered if it would be different if my mother were alive. I wondered if she would be by my side, stroking my forehead, and whether I'd feel pure comfort, rather than this strange clawing mix of emotions. I knew my mother through stories, photographs and her brightly coloured dreamcatchers. I'd always thought that she would understand me, that she'd be warm and open, and that I would have grown up to be an entirely different person had she been around. — Sarah Painter

It was too long ago; she couldn't recall the feelings of love, only remember that she'd had them. A dried-out memory, like a flower pressed between the pages of a book. — Sarah Painter

If people think you're powerful, then you usually are. — Sarah Painter

Strangers are just friends we don't know yet. — Sarah Painter

Maybe it's the coma, but I'm genuinely happy to be here.' 'You don't have to do that, you know.' 'Do what?' 'Assume that everything is different now. You're still the same person you always were, you've just got some gaps to fill in. You mustn't think that you're starting all over again.' 'Is — Sarah Painter

Grace wasn't so sure. She had become accustomed to the photograph, of course, seeing it every day, but she didn't envy Nancy Beaton. The girl looked sad, Grace thought, and all of that shining material bunched behind her looked heavy, as if it were weighing her down. She didn't look like a shooting star about to streak across a dark sky, she looked anchored to the earth. Trapped. Like a butterfly in a jar. — Sarah Painter