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61 " 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
62 " It was all so different. Sex in a mirror, not up against one. Reflection, not objectification. Soft skin on soft skin....no demand for noise and validation. ....this was sex among equals. This was not a battle, even when biting skin or tugging on hair. "
― Sarah Pinborough , Dead to Her
63 " Every word was like a pillow pressed against her face, but he didn't notice.....Each day that passed she found him harder to like.... She smiled even as her skin crawled. There wasn't even time to take a Valium. "
64 " black and white are easy to live with; it's the shades of grey that give you nightmares "
― Sarah Pinborough , A Matter of Blood (The Dog-Faced Gods, #1)
65 " The kind of belly men loved in women and women hated in themselves. "
66 " She'd been stillborn into the waters of this society. "
― Sarah Pinborough , Behind Her Eyes
67 " 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. "
68 " People cheat all the time. The reasons are always selfish and base, it’s the excuses we make that are complicated. "
69 " The little disregards hurt the most. "
70 " There’s no right and wrong with feelings. There is only what there is. "
71 " When the story of his life is spun, we will simply be the early threads. We will not be the color. "
72 " Men are fucking babies their whole lives. You spend all your time trying to make them feel better about themselves. For what? For fucking nothing. Take take take, that’s all they do. They never fucking grow up. "
73 " My own world is more real than theirs, even if I am lost in it. "
― Sarah Pinborough , The Language of Dying
74 " 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
75 " The kindness of strangers will kill us all. "
76 " The story goes that Spanish moss doesn’t grow here because it won’t grow where innocent blood has been spilled. "
77 " I’m sure you’re no saint, don’t get me wrong, but goodness is something else. And I see it in you. Maybe it’s hidden away because it’s had to be, but it’s there. "
78 " she couldn’t stop herself suddenly picturing his damp, salty crotch, and the line of wet skin under the overhang of his belly. "
79 " Often what you worry other people might be thinking of you is most likely to be what you think of yourself. Be kinder to yourself, Marcie. Nobody’s perfect. "
80 " I remember Phoebe gripping my hand as we ran through the rain to the nice lady's house. Phoebe has never talked about any drills. She must remember them, surely? But how much do we remember of anything? 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. "