I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power.
Sarah HallI'll tell you this, lad: A tattoo says more of a fellow looking at it than it can do of the man who's got it on his back.
Sarah HallAll innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal disenchantments.
Sarah HallAt night, in the garden, it occurs to you that it might have been your heart that left you as you reached the capital. Your heart might not have travelled well, closed up in its cavity, quivering and gnawing at the bars of your ribcage during the commute. It might be tracking north now, along edgelands, past spoil-heaps and stands of pylons, under motorway passes, back to the higher ground. Back to him.
Sarah Hall