--- title: "1 Borges Quotes By Sarah Hilary" description: "1 Borges quotes by Sarah Hilary. Plus more from Sarah Hilary and more Borges sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/874/sarah-hilary-19479_borges_the-truth-is-that-we-all-live-by-leaving_2301598.jpg" --- > [“The truth is that we all live by leaving behind. Borges. That was it. Jorge Luis Borges’s Funes the Memorious, a book about a man who couldn’t forget anything, who was driven mad by his memory. Reading Borges had been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-hilary/the-truth-is-that-we-all-live-by-leaving-behind-borges-that-was-it/) [Sarah Hilary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-hilary/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/874/sarah-hilary-19479_borges_the-truth-is-that-we-all-live-by-leaving_2301598.jpg) ## Other authors on Borges ## More by Sarah Hilary > [“made her realise, again, how lucky she’d been to grow up in a secure, loving home.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-hilary/made-her-realise-again-how-lucky-she-d-been-to-grow-up-in-a-secure/) [Sarah Hilary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-hilary/) > [“For my mother, the best in the world”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-hilary/for-my-mother-the-best-in-the-world/) [Sarah Hilary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-hilary/) > [“To check the fan’s working before the shit hits.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-hilary/to-check-the-fan-s-working-before-the-shit-hits/) [Sarah Hilary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-hilary/) > [“His temples throbbed but the migraine had retreated, leaving a soft wash of endorphins in its wake. He lay blinking at the pillow, light-headed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-hilary/his-temples-throbbed-but-the-migraine-had-retreated-leaving-a-soft/) [Sarah Hilary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-hilary/) > [“That no matter how loud you shout, sometimes you’re left alone. Sometimes, no one comes.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-hilary/that-no-matter-how-loud-you-shout-sometimes-you-re-left-alone/) [Sarah Hilary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-hilary/) > [“An idea was knocking about in the back of her head, like a moth at a dimly lit window.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-hilary/an-idea-was-knocking-about-in-the-back-of-her-head-like-a-moth-at-a/) [Sarah Hilary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-hilary/) > [“It became its own discipline, the fear of failing to do as they said; a voice in her head berating her before anyone else…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-hilary/it-became-its-own-discipline-the-fear-of-failing-to-do-as-they-said-a/) [Sarah Hilary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-hilary/) > [“The house was bay-windowed, clinging to its original features the way a pensioner clung to her handbag on pension day. The neighbours had put…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-hilary/the-house-was-bay-windowed-clinging-to-its-original-features-the-way/) [Sarah Hilary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-hilary/) > [“Wiring in nooses from the ceiling, waiting to be connected, plugged into the rest of the city.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-hilary/wiring-in-nooses-from-the-ceiling-waiting-to-be-connected-plugged/) [Sarah Hilary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-hilary/) > [“Many will have suffered depression as teenagers or young women, so they’ll be familiar with that stigma, the way treatment involves judgement. It shouldn’t,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-hilary/many-will-have-suffered-depression-as-teenagers-or-young-women-so/) [Sarah Hilary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-hilary/) > [“Her heart staggered and stuttered in her chest, like a rat caught in the cage of her ribs.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-hilary/her-heart-staggered-and-stuttered-in-her-chest-like-a-rat-caught-in/) [Sarah Hilary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-hilary/) > [“We’re solitary by nature. Aren’t we? Even families … Fundamentally, I mean.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-hilary/we-re-solitary-by-nature-aren-t-we-even-families-fundamentally-i-mean/) [Sarah Hilary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-hilary/) > [“He was nineteen, serving time for a double murder committed five years ago, when he was fourteen.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-hilary/he-was-nineteen-serving-time-for-a-double-murder-committed-five-years/) [Sarah Hilary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-hilary/) > [“You always always put family first, no matter how rotten. A bad family’s better than an empty sty. You don’t cut off a stinking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-hilary/you-always-always-put-family-first-no-matter-how-rotten-a-bad-family/) [Sarah Hilary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-hilary/) > [“Not all loss was about grief. Sometimes it was the loss of fear, or consequence. Loss could be liberating.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-hilary/not-all-loss-was-about-grief-sometimes-it-was-the-loss-of-fear-or/) [Sarah Hilary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-hilary/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/borges/sarah-hilary/#itemlist", "name": "1 Borges Quotes By Sarah Hilary", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The truth is that we all live by leaving behind. Borges. That was it. Jorge Luis Borges’s Funes the Memorious, a book about a man who couldn’t forget anything, who was driven mad by his memory. Reading Borges had been light relief during her Camus phase, but that line had stuck with her. 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