85 Quotes by Sarah Pinborough

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

The little disregards hurt the most.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.