Winnie

“Boy swallows past. Boy swallows himself. Boy swallows universe.”
― Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

“And sometimes, when the day loomed grey, I'd sit at my desk and remember the heat of that summer. I’d remember the smells of tuberose that were carried by the wind, and the smell of octopus cooking on stinking griddles. I’d remember the sound of our laughter and the sound of a doughnut seller, and I’d remember the red canvas shoes I lost in the sea, and the taste of pastis and the taste of his skin, and a sky so blue it would defy anything else to be blue again. And I’d remember my love for a man that almost made everything possible.”
― Sarah Winman, Tin Man

“..And now look. Life changes in ways we can never imagine. Walls come down and people are free. You wait, she says.”
― Sarah Winman, Tin Man

“I don't know how I got to be thirty. I don't feel thirty, the way I felt so definitely nine, and thirteen, and twenty-one.”
― Rachel Khong, Goodbye, Vitamin