Sara Cox > Quotes

“They’ll miss you when you go.’ I feel”
― Sara Cox, Way Back

“Paralysed by potential’ is what she’d heard one of the mums at school call it – so much she could be doing but not really knowing where to start, so not starting.”
― Sara Cox, Thrown

“Marty, it’s like the thought I need is on a shelf that’s just out of my reach – I can see it, but no matter how hard I try I just can’t reach it.”
― Sara Cox, Thrown

“too loud. What are you”
― Sara Cox, Way Back

“I feel like I’m at the top of a slide I don’t want to go down. Like this, right now is the beginning of the end, and I’m powerless … and at the bottom of the slide she won’t be there to catch me like she has all my life.”
― Sara Cox, Thrown

“They’re not “yours”, your kids.’ Sheila sighed. ‘You’re just loaned them for a while – took me a long time to learn that. In a way I’m still learning”
― Sara Cox, Thrown

“Fiesta”
― Sara Cox, Way Back

“The thought of resurrecting the bones of my long deceased banking career was frankly terrifying.”
― Sara Cox, Way Back

“just because you’ve split up doesn’t mean your marriage isn’t something to be proud of.’ She thinks for a minute. ‘If a jumper unravels or a vase breaks after twenty years, it doesn’t wipe out the comfort or the beauty that thing provided for all the time it was in one piece.”
― Sara Cox, Way Back

“To me money drips from a tap that could be turned off indiscriminately by the fickle hand of fate.”
― Sara Cox, Way Back

“One doesn’t “get over it”, the grief is like a huge black hole you get used to living alongside, you make room for it but it’s always there.”
― Sara Cox, Way Back

“I threw myself into being a wife and then a mum. But I forgot how to be just Josie.”
― Sara Cox, Way Back

“If I’m not a mum at the school gates or a wife organising the home then who the hell am I?”
― Sara Cox, Way Back

“photos in the bin? I didn’t find out, a storm was rolling in and big fat”
― Sara Cox, Way Back

“I feel a bit like we’ve already separated… like he’s no longer mine, just a possession I’ve sold that’s yet to be shipped.”
― Sara Cox, Way Back

“I need to intercept the yolk before it reaches the baked beans, because if it merges with the beans, going that rank peach colour, it’ll be game over.”
― Sara Cox, Thrown