“It's strange how different we all appear to who we really are.”
― Sarah Pinborough, quote from Behind Her Eyes
“Everyone has secrets, Lou,” she says. “Everyone should be allowed their secrets. You can never know everything about a person. You’d go mad trying to.”
― Sarah Pinborough, quote from Behind Her Eyes
“There's no right and wrong with feelings. There is only what there is.”
― Sarah Pinborough, quote from Behind Her Eyes
“Secrets, secrets, secrets. People are filled to the brim with them if you look closely.”
― Sarah Pinborough, quote from Behind Her Eyes
“It's not that difficult, I want to say. People cheat all the time. The reasons are always selfish and base, it's the excuses we make that are complicated.”
― Sarah Pinborough, quote from Behind Her Eyes
“There’s no right and wrong with feelings. There is only what there is.” She”
― Sarah Pinborough, quote from Behind Her Eyes
“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, quote from Behind Her Eyes
“An ending and a beginning now knotted up forever. He expected the hues of the world to change to reflect that, but the earth and heavens remained the same muted shades, and there was no tremble of anger from the trees. No weeping whisper of wind. No siren wailed in the distance. The woods were just the woods, and the dirt was just the dirt.”
― Sarah Pinborough, quote from Behind Her Eyes
“Then she said that truth was all relative. Truth often came down to what is the most believable version of events.”
― Sarah Pinborough, quote from Behind Her Eyes
“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.”
― Sarah Pinborough, quote from Behind Her Eyes
“The past is as ephemeral as the future—it’s all perspective and smoke and mirrors.”
― Sarah Pinborough, quote from Behind Her Eyes
“...people don't ever really trust each other enough to not have doubts. No one ever truly thinks the best of anyone else.”
― Sarah Pinborough, quote from Behind Her Eyes
“When the story of his life is spun, we will simply be the early threads. We will not be the color.”
― Sarah Pinborough, quote from Behind Her Eyes
Sarah Pinborough
Born place: Buckinghamshire
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“There were numerous physical combats between husbands and wives, and not always the husbands that matched the wives. Kitty Hofman, for instance, had been given a black eye by Carter Davis when she kicked him in the groin for dunking her head in a punch bowl for calling him a son of a bitch for telling her she looked like something the cat dragged in. And so on.”
― John O'Hara, quote from Appointment in Samarra
“Explosion without an objective,” declared Miles Blundell, “is politics in its purest form.”
― Thomas Pynchon, quote from Against the Day
“And therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person’s life on this earth. I don’t mean that we all end up dead, that’s not the great pity. I mean that he couldn’t tell me what he was dreaming, and I couldn’t tell him what was real.”
― Denis Johnson, quote from Jesus' Son
“And that, my dear children, is the moral of this chapter. I did not mean it to have a moral, but morals are nasty forward beings, and will keep putting in their oars where they are not wanted. And since the moral has crept in, quite against my wishes, you might as well think of it....”
― E. Nesbit, quote from Five Children and It
“Maybe sheetrocking wasn't one of Sully's favorite jobs, but like most physical labor, there was a rhythm to it that you could find if you cared to look, and once you found this rhythm it'd get you through a morning. Rhythm was what Sully had counted on over the long years - that and the wisdom to understand that no job, no matter how thankless or stupid or backbreaking, could not be gotten through. The clock moved if you let it.”
― Richard Russo, quote from Nobody's Fool
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