We Live Here Now Quotes

“Spring is all about the joy of life. Winter is death, and right now, in this freezing January, we’re caught tight in its grip.”
― Sarah Pinborough, We Live Here Now

“But what could I say now? I’m sorry I was such a bitch when we were on holiday”
― Sarah Pinborough, We Live Here Now

“faster and faster”
― Sarah Pinborough, We Live Here Now

“Houses are funny like that, aren’t they? Made new by new owners. All the history wiped away. Sometimes I wonder how much the buildings remember though. In the bricks, you know what I mean? Something must soak in. All those lives.”
― Sarah Pinborough, We Live Here Now

“But what could I say now? I’m sorry I was such a bitch when we were on holiday, but I’d drunkenly cheated on you with my boss because I wanted that promotion so badly, and if that guilt wasn’t enough, I’d just found out I was pregnant and didn’t know if it was yours, and I wasn’t even really sure I wanted you anymore?”
― Sarah Pinborough, We Live Here Now

“Good and evil live in us all,”
― Sarah Pinborough, We Live Here Now

“The lower half of the sash window has been pulled up, wide open. Freddie yanks it down and screws the latch up tight. ‘And now this place is an icebox.’ ‘I haven’t touched it. I heard something upstairs and went to look, that’s all.’ ‘It didn’t open itself,”
― Sarah Pinborough, We Live Here Now

“Up above, in the floor I’ve yet to see, sunlight hits the beautiful arch window, and suddenly it looks like the house winks at me.”
― Sarah Pinborough, We Live Here Now

“A successful marriage is about accepting that no one can ever be that perfect version they showed you and you chose to believe.”
― Sarah Pinborough, We Live Here Now

“The fact of the matter is,” Russell continues, “that when people fall in love the first thing they do is lie to each other.” He smiles at all of us, his curly hair wilder after being caught in the rain. “And lies are hard to maintain.”
― Sarah Pinborough, We Live Here Now

“After a few years of marriage, love lingers on as a matter of habit, but the affection fades. The affection is the magic. That warmth and wanting to be near someone. To touch them.”
― Sarah Pinborough, We Live Here Now

“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Sarah Pinborough, We Live Here Now

“that we all fall in love in part with an illusion, because we all present an illusion to someone who we want to love us.”
― Sarah Pinborough, We Live Here Now

“Die or Diet by Dr. Ella Jones, Will You Love Me by Mhairi Atkinson, Here Come the Clowns by Armond Ellory, and You by Caroline Kepnes.”
― Sarah Pinborough, We Live Here Now

“I guess we live here now,” I say.”
― Sarah Pinborough, We Live Here Now

“that we all fall in love in part with an illusion, because we all present an illusion to someone who we want to love us. We heighten the best bits of ourselves and hide the worst bits. And when looking at our partner we ignore the hints of the things that might annoy us and see only the good. The madness of first love. A successful marriage is about accepting that no one can ever be that perfect version they showed you and you chose to believe.”
― Sarah Pinborough, We Live Here Now