Sarah Pearse > Quotes

“Grief is like a series of bombs exploding, one after another. Every hour, a new detonation. Shock after shock after shock.”
― Sarah Pearse, The Sanatorium

“Il faut bonne mémoire après qu'on a menti'
A liar should have a good memory.”
― Sarah Pearse, The Sanatorium

“It’s strange, she thinks, how for her, claustrophobia doesn’t only exist in spaces outside herself, but within her too. That horrible sense of being trapped inside your own body.”
― Sarah Pearse, The Sanatorium

“She’s forgotten how easy it is to lose track of someone; the sum of their parts.”
― Sarah Pearse, The Sanatorium

“Seeing yourself like that, shadowy, distorted, it’s like looking into the darkest parts of your soul.”
― Sarah Pearse, The Sanatorium

“The ego always wins. It's a weakness in everyone, the desire to know the most, be the hero, the one to save the day.”
― Sarah Pearse, The Sanatorium

“People don’t like a winner.”
― Sarah Pearse, The Sanatorium

“Anger is often unpredictable, a barrier to keeping things in check.”
― Sarah Pearse, The Sanatorium

“The most easily manipulated? Social media. The extrovert colleague having a meal with her ‘squad’ could in fact be eating alone, reading a book. The artsy shot of the prize-winning book? Discarded after the first page.”
― Sarah Pearse, The Sanatorium

“Grief … it’s like a series of bombs exploding, one after another. Every hour, a new detonation. Shock after shock after shock.”
― Sarah Pearse, The Sanatorium

“Closure by deletion of the past.”
― Sarah Pearse, The Sanatorium

“Things are messy, there aren't always explainations.”
― Sarah Pearse, The Sanatorium

“Family is all you have, but it isn’t found only in a blood connection. Family shows itself in the unlikeliest of moments: the split-second glances, a gesture, the hand next to yours when you need it the most.”
― Sarah Pearse, The Retreat

“She’s often thought about this, the risks of a crime in a remote location. How vulnerable people would be, how much damage could be inflicted in a short period of time. Her mind flickers to the terror attacks in Norway in 2011. Anders Breivik, a right-winger on a rampage, shot at teenagers gathered on the island of Utøya during an annual summer camp. The island’s remote location meant that by the time the police had reached them sixty-nine people had already been massacred.”
― Sarah Pearse, The Sanatorium

“nags:”
― Sarah Pearse, The Sanatorium

“Her mother said it was a fear of letting go, losing control of emotions she wasn’t comfortable expressing.”
― Sarah Pearse, The Sanatorium

“Hit your late twenties and people felt the need to box you up, categorize you. If they couldn’t, they saw you as a threat. An indefinable.”
― Sarah Pearse, The Sanatorium

“Adele loves her son wholly, absolutely, but sometimes she struggles to remember who she was before. What her world was like before it had been deconstructed, reassembled into something else entirely.”
― Sarah Pearse, The Sanatorium

“Відтепер я робитиму що захочу. І до біса всіх, хто стане на заваді.”
― Sarah Pearse, The Sanatorium

“How could she be so stupid? She'd nearly fallen for it, the words, the feigned emotion, but people don't change, do they? The ability to lie, deceive, it's woven so deep, it's impossible to pick out, remove.”
― Sarah Pearse, The Sanatorium

“her”
― Sarah Pearse, The Sanatorium

“Only people with influence, money, possess that kind of inbuilt belief that they have the right to take up that much space.”
― Sarah Pearse, The Sanatorium

“through”
― Sarah Pearse, The Retreat

“On nous apprend à vivre quand la vie est passée. They teach us to live when life has passed. —Michel de Montaigne”
― Sarah Pearse, The Sanatorium

“But that’s reasonable, right? If someone tosses you aside like you’re rubbish. No one likes that, do they? Feeling used.”
― Sarah Pearse, The Sanatorium

“It’s comforting, in a weird way, to think that someone else understands a fact that’s usually taboo: not all parents are good parents.”
― Sarah Pearse, The Retreat

“He said the other day that someone had taken father’s his money in a scam not long before he died.”
― Sarah Pearse, The Retreat

“Part of her wants to dismiss what she heard as a figment of her imagination, a different sound altogether, but another part of her is sure: Whoever was in there was watching her.
Waiting.”
― Sarah Pearse, The Sanatorium

“still need to work on. Being happy on my own.”
― Sarah Pearse, The Wilds

“For her, even easy, everyday things became something to be agonized over until they swelled out of all proportion.”
― Sarah Pearse, The Sanatorium