Cross Her Heart Quotes

“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

“Someone can do a terrible unforgivable thing, and yet you forgive them if you love them. The heart is such a strange thing.”
― Sarah Pinborough, Cross Her Heart

“The inside information comes later. Those talks are for the middle of the night, heads on pillows, faces only outlines in the darkness. That's when people surrender their weapons to each other and hope they don't end up stabbed in the night by them in the future.”
― Sarah Pinborough, Cross Her Heart

“I smile, and I feel an awful ache I don’t fully understand. A kind of empathy for someone’s fragility. For everything people hold inside.”
― Sarah Pinborough, Cross Her Heart

“People believe lives, as if they're the truth of a person rather than the window dressing. You only have to look at Facebook. All those miserable people trying to outshine each other with holiday photos and humble brags and #feelingblessed. Adding people they've never met and thinking they somehow know them from the shit they share. One friend in common.”
― Sarah Pinborough, Cross Her Heart

“Are we only ever transfers of adulthood pasted onto our childhoods?" - Marilyn”
― Sarah Pinborough, Cross Her Heart

“Someone once told me,” I say, “that the human body replaces its cells in their entirety over the course of seven years. So in essence we are all completely different people than we were seven years ago, and that person was different from the one seven years before. This makes me wonder why everyone is always so fascinated by other people’s pasts, because none of us are those people anymore.”
― Sarah Pinborough, Cross Her Heart