I Saw a Man Quotes

“There are narrow windows for certain beginnings. Multiple strands of personal histories, psychologies, emotions that intersect once only, and then never again.”
― Owen Sheers, I Saw A Man

“Yesterday, upon the stair, I saw a man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t there again today, I wish, I wish he’d go away —from a version of “Antigonish” by William Hughes Mearns”
― Owen Sheers, I Saw a Man: A Novel

“None of their choices had been malign. And yet combined, they’d created darkness more than light.”
― Owen Sheers, I Saw a Man

“Life, she felt, was an instrument, and the trick was to find the tune you could play on it.”
― Owen Sheers, I Saw A Man

“At that time Michael said he couldn't know, not having had any himself, but that he certainly agreed with the French when they said you become an adult only when you lose your parents.”
― Owen Sheers, I Saw a Man