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41 " Except nothing’s ever going to be normal again, is it? "
― Sarah Pinborough , 13 Minutes
42 " Carbs are the devil’s work. Save them for treat days. "
― Sarah Pinborough , Behind Her Eyes
43 " I think back to my own short-lived marriage. The lust didn’t die with us. But that didn’t stop him leaving after four years to be with someone else when our son was barely two years old. Maybe she has a point. I don’t think I ever saw my ex, Ian, as my best friend. "
44 " Also,” Louise continues, and I pay attention now I’m sure I have everything securely logged in my head, “this sitting-still business is always preferable to the gym. I’m going to ache tomorrow. "
45 " There's no right or wrong with feelings. There is only what there is. "
46 " I was his practice wife, I realize. Adam and I were his practice family. When the story of his life is spun, we will simply be the early threads. We will not be the color. "
47 " And you think you know her cos you were friends first? You think people stay the same? Are you the same as you were then? "
48 " I am exhausted and you are nearly invisible. What a pair we are. "
― Sarah Pinborough , The Language of Dying
49 " I was only trying to help. "
50 " To trust the truth of a thing, you have to suffer the thing. You have to get mud on your hands and dirt under your fingernails. You have to dig for it. "
51 " 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. Because I guess for you the everything is done and there is only the now. And in the now your loss of dignity is everything. "
52 " Love dies hard, you know? "
53 " Growing up is about the moment of realising that the cracks in the pavement are nothing to worry about. It's the cracks on your insides that count. "
54 " Sometimes true love needs a helping hand. "
55 " If you can’t laugh at your own fuck-ups, what can you laugh at? "
56 " The past is as ephemeral as the future—it’s all perspective and smoke and mirrors. You can’t pin it down, can you? Let’s say two people experience exactly the same thing—ask them to recount the event later and although their versions might be similar there will always be differences. The truth is different to different people. "
57 " When had her moment come, that second when trust slid into mistrust and love cracked wide, emptying, leaving only the brittle shell? "
― Sarah Pinborough , Dead to Her
58 " Sometimes I forget you're still pretty young......"Yeah, she thought. Sometimes I do too. "
59 " The walls were blue but there was nothing vivid in the colour. A dead blue. Drained of life. Dulled into despair. "
60 " Everyone should be allowed their secrets. You can never know everything about a person. You’d go mad trying to. "