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21 " Dark and light. Horror and beauty. Everything is extremes. "
― Sarah Pinborough , The Death House
22 " 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
23 " Why do people always believe diaries? They’re just words. "
― Sarah Pinborough , 13 Minutes
24 " Those that were kind would never understand those that were cruel, and the cruel ones could never really respect kindness. "
― Sarah Pinborough
25 " There’s no right and wrong with feelings. There is only what there is.” She "
26 " 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
27 " The past is as ephemeral as the future—it’s all perspective and smoke and mirrors. "
28 " 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. "
29 " 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. "
30 " Boys are dogs. Women are like cats. Individuals by nature. We are not pack animals. "
31 " 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
32 " If you thought about it hard enough, you could be scared of everything. "
33 " I think about that lost dignity you must be feeling and I want to tell you it doesn't matter. Not in the great scheme of things. This is just the end. It isn't the everything of you. And it's the everything we'll remember when the memory of this fades. xxxI can't explain this though. The words are tangled on my tongue and I'm not sure they would make a difference. Becuase I guess for you the everything is done and there is only the now. And in the now your loss of dignity is everything. "
34 " ...people don't ever really trust each other enough to not have doubts. No one ever truly thinks the best of anyone else. "
35 " everyone’s life is probably a mess of secrets and lies when you boil them right down. "
36 " Someone can do a terrible unforgivable thing, and yet you forgive them if you love them. The heart is such a strange thing. "
37 " 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. "
38 " You don’t get to dump me and move on. You’re staying with me. "
39 " Something is building, bubbling in my stomach, flaring into white heat, and I don't know if it will explode out of me in anxiety or whether it will meet with the dark spots at the edge of my vision and push me out to pass out. I want it to come out in words that I don't have. I want it to make sense. To not just be mine. And then just when I am about to combust, it appears in the night. Out of nowhere. "
40 " For me, life has always been the storm. The storm and watching from the window for the thing that could stop it, even if my watching was only with my mind's eye locked on the window of my imagination. "