Top 50 Sarah Pinborough Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I was only trying to help.”

— Sarah Pinborough

2. “If you thought about it hard enough, you could be scared of everything.”

— Sarah Pinborough

3. “I guess sometimes you have to hide from the world to see it properly.”

— Sarah Pinborough

4. “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

5. “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

6. “Three can keep a secret if two are dead. – BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.”

— Sarah Pinborough

7. “It’s strange how different we all appear to who we really are.”

— Sarah Pinborough

8. “Sometimes,′ Beauty said softly, sipping from her silver goblet, ‘everyone needs to let the beast inside them out for a while’. She laughed, a sound like a waterfall meeting the sea and more glitter escaped from her fingertips. ‘I like to see it. We all have our dark lusts. We should enjoy them.”

— Sarah Pinborough

9. “Dark and light. Horror and beauty. Everything is extremes.”

— Sarah Pinborough

10. “Sharing a secret always feels great in the moment, but then becomes a burden in itself. That gnawing in the pit of your stomach that something has been set free and you can’t call it back and now someone else has that power over your future.”

— Sarah Pinborough

11. “They think they understand us, but they don’t. We’re still children to them.”

— Sarah Pinborough

12. “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

13. “Growing up is about realising the cracks in the pavement are nothing to worry about. It’s the cracks inside that count.”

— Sarah Pinborough

14. “If you love someone, set them free. What a load of bollocks.”

— Sarah Pinborough

15. “There’s no right and wrong with feelings. There is only what there is.”

— Sarah Pinborough

16. “Carbs are the devil’s work. Save them for treat days.”

— Sarah Pinborough

17. “Secrets, secrets, secrets. People are filled to the brim with them if you look closely.”

— Sarah Pinborough

18. “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.”

— Sarah Pinborough

19. “Then she said that truth was all relative. Truth often came down to what is the most believable version of events.”

— Sarah Pinborough

20. “The past is as ephemeral as the future – it’s all perspective and smoke and mirrors.”

— Sarah Pinborough

21. “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

22. “Why do people always believe diaries? They’re just words.”

— Sarah Pinborough

23. “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?”

— Sarah Pinborough

24. “Unfortunately it is perhaps in all our natures that we take the living for granted until they are no longer with us. – Thomas Bond.”

— Sarah Pinborough

25. “Boys are dogs. Women are like cats. Individuals by nature. We are not pack animals.”

— Sarah Pinborough

26. “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

27. “I am exhausted and you are nearly invisible. What a pair we are.”

— Sarah Pinborough

28. “Except nothing’s ever going to be normal again, is it?”

— Sarah Pinborough

29. “Of course she was bloody found dead.” Moore grumbled. “Some bastard cut off her head and her limbs. If she’d been found alive I would have been more than bloody surprised.”

— Sarah Pinborough

30. “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

31. “The kind of belly men loved in women and women hated in themselves.”

— Sarah Pinborough

32. “When the story of his life is spun, we will simply be the early threads. We will not be the color.”

— Sarah Pinborough

33. “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

34. “You don’t get to dump me and move on. You’re staying with me.”

— Sarah Pinborough

35. “When had her moment come, that second when trust slid into mistrust and love cracked wide, emptying, leaving only the brittle shell?”

— Sarah Pinborough

36. “She’d been stillborn into the waters of this society.”

— Sarah Pinborough

37. “Sometimes true love needs a helping hand.”

— Sarah Pinborough

38. “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

39. “The little disregards hurt the most.”

— Sarah Pinborough

40. “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.”

— Sarah Pinborough

41. “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

42. “Those that were kind would never understand those that were cruel, and the cruel ones could never really respect kindness.”

— Sarah Pinborough

43. “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.”

— Sarah Pinborough

44. “The walls were blue but there was nothing vivid in the colour. A dead blue. Drained of life. Dulled into despair.”

— Sarah Pinborough

45. “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.”

— Sarah Pinborough

46. “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

47. “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.”

— Sarah Pinborough

48. “Another memory whispers inside me. The misty rotten breath of it filling my head.”

— Sarah Pinborough

49. “Love dies hard, you know?”

— Sarah Pinborough

50. “Everything feels wrong at night. Pieces out of place in my head. No straight edges in the jigsaw to anchor me.”

— Sarah Pinborough