Sian Taylor

“Actors headed towards Shaftesbury Avenue, and prostitutes were taking an early-evening stroll before work laid them out for the night.”
― Sarah Winman, Still Life

“Books are feelings,” he replied simply. “They exist to make us feel. To connect us to what’s inside, sometimes to things we don’t even know are there.”
― Barbara Davis, The Echo of Old Books

“What I learned is that everyone in your life has an invisible number on their foreheads, which represents the number of times you will see them again. It might be zero or one, or it could be a thousand, but it’s a number. We don’t have unlimited time with people. I don’t mean that in a morbid way. It’s a lesson for us to appreciate people while we can. Don’t put people off. Don’t think you can make up the time later.”
― Ronan Hession, Leonard and Hungry Paul