Sarah Pinborough > Quotes

“There's no right and wrong with feelings. There is only what there is.”
― Sarah Pinborough, Behind Her Eyes

“Everyone has secrets, Lou,” she says. “Everyone should be allowed their secrets. You can never know everything about a person. You’d go mad trying to.”
― Sarah Pinborough, Behind Her Eyes

“It's strange how different we all appear to who we really are.”
― Sarah Pinborough, Behind Her Eyes

“Sometimes,' Beauty said softly, sipping from her silver goblet, 'everyone needs to let the beast inside them out for a while'. She laughed, a sound like a waterfall meeting the sea and more glitter escaped from her fingertips. 'I like to see it. We all have our dark lusts. We should enjoy them.”
― Sarah Pinborough, Beauty

“Sharing a secret always feels great in the moment, but then becomes a burden in itself. That gnawing in the pit of your stomach that something has been set free and you can’t call it back and now someone else has that power over your future.”
― Sarah Pinborough, Behind Her Eyes

“Secrets, secrets, secrets. People are filled to the brim with them if you look closely.”
― Sarah Pinborough, Behind Her Eyes

“Then she said that truth was all relative. Truth often came down to what is the most believable version of events.”
― Sarah Pinborough, Behind Her Eyes

“Sometimes there are just too many words filling up space and not enough emptiness left for thinking. I keep a little emptiness inside for when I need it.”
― Sarah Pinborough, The Language of Dying

“I guess sometimes you have to hide from the world to see it properly.”
― Sarah Pinborough, The Language of Dying

“Three can keep a secret if two are dead. —BENJAMIN FRANKLIN”
― Sarah Pinborough, Behind Her Eyes

“An ending and a beginning now knotted up forever. He expected the hues of the world to change to reflect that, but the earth and heavens remained the same muted shades, and there was no tremble of anger from the trees. No weeping whisper of wind. No siren wailed in the distance. The woods were just the woods, and the dirt was just the dirt.”
― Sarah Pinborough, Behind Her Eyes

“If you love someone, set them free. What a load of bollocks.”
― Sarah Pinborough, Behind Her Eyes

“It's not that difficult, I want to say. People cheat all the time. The reasons are always selfish and base, it's the excuses we make that are complicated.”
― Sarah Pinborough, Behind Her Eyes

“They think they understand us, but they don’t. We’re still children to them.”
― Sarah Pinborough, 13 Minutes

“Why do people always believe diaries? They’re just words.”
― Sarah Pinborough, 13 Minutes

“A home needs to be filled with love, and some houses--her own, as it had been, included--don't have enough heat in their love to warm them.”
― Sarah Pinborough, Behind Her Eyes

“The past is as ephemeral as the future—it’s all perspective and smoke and mirrors.”
― Sarah Pinborough, Behind Her Eyes

“Memory. We rely on it so heavily for everything we know about ourselves and those around us, but actually we remember so little. Just wisps of emotions or a smell or a moment. Corrupted files in our heads. Pages missing, torn or burned. Disks unreadable. Memories are like time, constantly slipping from our grasp.”
― Sarah Pinborough, Insomnia

“Growing up is about realising the cracks in the pavement are nothing to worry about. It's the cracks inside that count.”
― Sarah Pinborough, The Language of Dying

“There’s no right and wrong with feelings. There is only what there is.” She”
― Sarah Pinborough, Behind Her Eyes

“Those that were kind would never understand those that were cruel, and the cruel ones could never really respect kindness.”
― Sarah Pinborough

“Dark and light. Horror and beauty. Everything is extremes.”
― Sarah Pinborough, The Death House

“...people don't ever really trust each other enough to not have doubts. No one ever truly thinks the best of anyone else.”
― Sarah Pinborough, Behind Her Eyes

“I thought about the cake at lunchtime. I thought about all the extra calories. Fuck it, I concluded. I nearly died. “Chinese would be nice,” I said.”
― Sarah Pinborough, 13 Minutes

“They say women are the softer sex. The more emotional. Which fool decided that? A man in love is weakness personified. A man in love will tell you anything. Share anything. Give you everything.”
― Sarah Pinborough, Cross Her Heart

“Carbs are the devil’s work. Save them for treat days.”
― Sarah Pinborough, Behind Her Eyes

“There is a language to dying. It creeps like a shadow alongside the passing years and the taste of it hides in the corners of our mouths. It finds us whether we are sick or healthy. It is a secret hushed thing that lives in the whisper of the nurses’ skirts as they rustle up and down our stairs. They’ve taught me to face the language one syllable at a time, slowing creating an unwilling meaning.”
― Sarah Pinborough, The Language of Dying

“We look for meaning in everything, but what if there is no meaning? A glitch in time with no purpose. The random chaos of the universe.”
― Sarah Pinborough, Insomnia

“Boys are dogs. Women are like cats. Individuals by nature. We are not pack animals.”
― Sarah Pinborough, 13 Minutes

“They want to make me feel better about dying. To make me feel better about dying gives them a purpose." You pause. "But I'm fine about dying. And they just can't accept that. It takes away their purpose." You sip your tea and flinch. "And I'm buggered if I'm going to waste what's left of my time pretending to be terrified just to fit into someone else's picture of how things should be. I'd rather watch reruns of Dalziel and Pascoe on UK Gold.”
― Sarah Pinborough, The Language of Dying