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Top 20 Sarah Moss Quotes (2024 Update)

Sarah Moss Quote: “Lights blind you; there’s a lot you miss by gathering at the fireside.”

1. “Lights blind you; there’s a lot you miss by gathering at the fireside.”

Sarah Moss Quote: “I dislike Tolkien, another Oxonian Old Norse obsessive, with his war games and made-up language in a world without women.”

2. “I dislike Tolkien, another Oxonian Old Norse obsessive, with his war games and made-up language in a world without women.”

Sarah Moss Quote: “Stories have endings; that’s why we tell them, for reassurance that there is meaning in our lives. But like a diagnosis, a story can become a prison, a straight road mapped out by the people who went before. Stories are not the truth.”

3. “Stories have endings; that’s why we tell them, for reassurance that there is meaning in our lives. But like a diagnosis, a story can become a prison, a straight road mapped out by the people who went before. Stories are not the truth.”

Sarah Moss Quote: “It’s only, he said, that one doesn’t like to think of one’s grandchildren facing greater disadvantages than one’s children. Well stop voting Tory, you prick, Emma did not say.”

4. “It’s only, he said, that one doesn’t like to think of one’s grandchildren facing greater disadvantages than one’s children. Well stop voting Tory, you prick, Emma did not say.”

Sarah Moss Quote: “The stories told by numbers and research are quite different from the stories we tell ourselves and each other. This is not to say that either is wrong.”

5. “The stories told by numbers and research are quite different from the stories we tell ourselves and each other. This is not to say that either is wrong.”

Sarah Moss Quote: “I’m still broken, aren’t I? I guess I’m beginning to realise that I won’t get over it. Death doesn’t get better. Maybe life does.”

6. “I’m still broken, aren’t I? I guess I’m beginning to realise that I won’t get over it. Death doesn’t get better. Maybe life does.”

Sarah Moss Quote: “The plant began to topple and I found myself feeling guiltier about killing it than I had about gutting the rabbits. The whole of life, I thought, is doing harm, we live by killing, as if there were any being of which that is not the case.”

7. “The plant began to topple and I found myself feeling guiltier about killing it than I had about gutting the rabbits. The whole of life, I thought, is doing harm, we live by killing, as if there were any being of which that is not the case.”

Sarah Moss Quote: “Fiction is the enemy of history. Fiction makes us believe in structure, in beginnings and middles and endings, in tragedy and comedy. There is neither tragedy nor comedy in war, only disorder and harm.”

8. “Fiction is the enemy of history. Fiction makes us believe in structure, in beginnings and middles and endings, in tragedy and comedy. There is neither tragedy nor comedy in war, only disorder and harm.”

Sarah Moss Quote: “Suddenly, but not really. There is always a beginning.”

9. “Suddenly, but not really. There is always a beginning.”

Sarah Moss Quote: “I didn’t then like the thought of my own bones, waiting inside me for their own eventual exposure.”

10. “I didn’t then like the thought of my own bones, waiting inside me for their own eventual exposure.”

Sarah Moss Quote: “Dad and the Prof were talking about fighting, the way men do when they’re really fighting about talking.”

11. “Dad and the Prof were talking about fighting, the way men do when they’re really fighting about talking.”

Sarah Moss Quote: “I personally don’t like depressing subjects, people say, as if mortality is a lifestyle choice, disease and violence and sorrow a matter of taste.”

12. “I personally don’t like depressing subjects, people say, as if mortality is a lifestyle choice, disease and violence and sorrow a matter of taste.”

Sarah Moss Quote: “I started to empty the dishwasher and then remembered that there was an alternative to my thoughts and turned on the radio. There had been more bombs in the places where there are bombs. Children had died. No one had started CPR and called an ambulance, no one had rushed to them with adrenaline and oxygen and a defibrillator, no one was piecing together what had happened. There had been bombs and children had died.”

13. “I started to empty the dishwasher and then remembered that there was an alternative to my thoughts and turned on the radio. There had been more bombs in the places where there are bombs. Children had died. No one had started CPR and called an ambulance, no one had rushed to them with adrenaline and oxygen and a defibrillator, no one was piecing together what had happened. There had been bombs and children had died.”

Sarah Moss Quote: “It is simply not possible to live in a state of acute fear and shock for more than a couple of weeks, and so the mind finds a path, a story, a way onwards. Shock is by definition transient, even when the shocking thing is here to stay.”

14. “It is simply not possible to live in a state of acute fear and shock for more than a couple of weeks, and so the mind finds a path, a story, a way onwards. Shock is by definition transient, even when the shocking thing is here to stay.”

Sarah Moss Quote: “There must be a better reason to travel, a better way of travelling, than the hoarding of sights your friends haven’t seen.”

15. “There must be a better reason to travel, a better way of travelling, than the hoarding of sights your friends haven’t seen.”

Sarah Moss Quote: “Who are the ghosts again, us or our dead? Maybe they imagined us first, maybe we were conjured out of the deep past by other minds.”

16. “Who are the ghosts again, us or our dead? Maybe they imagined us first, maybe we were conjured out of the deep past by other minds.”

Sarah Moss Quote: “And the waves, of course, have almost gone here in the shelter of the island and the peninsula where even today there are cars glinting wet through the trees, people desperate enough to walk in the rain or some of them just seem to drive to the end of the road and park and sit there, newspapers and tea from a flask and it makes him itch everywhere at once just thinking of it, people sitting in parked cars, the windows steaming up, waiting for minutes to pass, for their lives to drip away.”

17. “And the waves, of course, have almost gone here in the shelter of the island and the peninsula where even today there are cars glinting wet through the trees, people desperate enough to walk in the rain or some of them just seem to drive to the end of the road and park and sit there, newspapers and tea from a flask and it makes him itch everywhere at once just thinking of it, people sitting in parked cars, the windows steaming up, waiting for minutes to pass, for their lives to drip away.”

Sarah Moss Quote: “I find that fiction and I read it, often with pleasure and sometimes with admiration, but I look for books of all kinds that are not ‘relatable’ to me, books that are windows more than mirrors. If fiction has a moral purpose – it doesn’t have to have a moral purpose – it’s in letting us see our shared world from places other than our own and through eyes other than our own, giving us versions of human experience and history and geography that are not at all ’relatable.”

18. “I find that fiction and I read it, often with pleasure and sometimes with admiration, but I look for books of all kinds that are not ‘relatable’ to me, books that are windows more than mirrors. If fiction has a moral purpose – it doesn’t have to have a moral purpose – it’s in letting us see our shared world from places other than our own and through eyes other than our own, giving us versions of human experience and history and geography that are not at all ’relatable.”

Sarah Moss Quote: “He once caught Marcus spitting over the side, and though he told him off he could see why he’d done it. There’s something about fatal drops that makes you want to launch a bit of yourself, just a mouthful, over the edge.”

19. “He once caught Marcus spitting over the side, and though he told him off he could see why he’d done it. There’s something about fatal drops that makes you want to launch a bit of yourself, just a mouthful, over the edge.”

Sarah Moss Quote: “It was bright again, as if England had forgotten how to rain.”

20. “It was bright again, as if England had forgotten how to rain.”

Sarah Moss Quote: “Milly likes Josh fine, it’s just that she’s hungry and it’s pretty cold when they’re not under the duvet and she’d kill for a cup of tea.”

21. “Milly likes Josh fine, it’s just that she’s hungry and it’s pretty cold when they’re not under the duvet and she’d kill for a cup of tea.”

Sarah Moss Quote: “There is a large overlap between ordinary families and those to whom terrible things have happened. It is possible, necessary, to be both.”

22. “There is a large overlap between ordinary families and those to whom terrible things have happened. It is possible, necessary, to be both.”

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