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An 18-year-old woman who shelters and feeds Inman during his quest back to Black Cove. Sara is lonely—her husband, Jonathan, is dead, and she has no one to help her take care of her infant child. As a result, Sara is eager to rely on Inman for warmth and companionship—late at night, she convinces Inman to lie in bed beside her, without touching her or saying anything.
Sara Quotes in Cold Mountain
The Cold Mountain quotes below are all either spoken by Sara or refer to Sara. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 13 Quotes
—If I was to ask you to do something, would you do it?
Inman considered that he should frame an answer here on the order of Maybe, or If I can, or some like provisional phrase.
What he said was, Yes.
—If I was to ask you to come over here and lay in bed with me but not do a thing else, could you do it?
Inman looked at her there and wondered what she saw looking back. Some dread shape filling the clothes of her husband?
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Sara Character Timeline in Cold Mountain
The timeline below shows where the character Sara appears in Cold Mountain. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 13: bride bed full of blood
...woman offers Inman a bed and food. The woman tells Inman that her name is Sara and that she’s eighteen years old. Inman is impressed that Sara survives on her own....
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Inman eats the meal Sara fixes for him. At dinner, he watches Sara nurse her baby, and can’t help fixating...
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Sara offers Inman a bed in the house, and when she shows Inman the bed, he...
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As Sara weeps next to Inman, she begins to stroke Inman’s body. She touches his scar but...
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Late at night, Inman wakes up—Sara is shaking him. Sara whispers that someone’s outside, possibly the Home Guard or robbers, and...
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Instead of returning to Sara, Inman decides to follow the three horsemen. He follows them on foot for several miles,...
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Inman leads Sara’s hog back to its home, where he finds Sara going through her usual morning routine...
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Later, Sara sings for her baby—a strange song, more like a ballad than a lullaby. There’s a...
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