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Now she has turned up, saying all the things I dreamed she'd say. — Sarah Waters

I've never managed to get very far with Henry James. — Sarah Waters

Your twisting is done
you have the last thread of my heart. I wonder: when the thread grows slack, will you feel it? — Sarah Waters

Sometimes I think I'd be perfectly happy to go on rewriting 'Tipping the Velvet' forever because it was so much fun. — Sarah Waters

But it's the simple and the good that are meant to suffer in this world - ain't it, though! — Sarah Waters

I did not care. I cared for nothing, now. I had kept up my nerve and my spirit, all that time. I had waited for my chance of escaping and got nowhere. — Sarah Waters

My locket hangs in my closet beside the glass, the only shining thing among so many shadows. — Sarah Waters

She will be like everyone, putting on the things she sees the constructions she expects to find there. — Sarah Waters

They was told it too, perhaps. Does that make it true? Maybe. Maybe not. — Sarah Waters

Perhaps, however, it is the same with spinsters as with ghosts; and one has to be of their ranks in order to see them at all. — Sarah Waters

Doesn't it seem to you, now you are here, that anything might be real, since Millbank is? — Sarah Waters

Marriages are like pianos. They go in and out of tune. — Sarah Waters

And yet, I seemed to feel my eyes bound, too, with bands of silk. And at my throat there was a velvet collar. — Sarah Waters

rooms seemed changed. I took to — Sarah Waters

Clad not exactly as a boy but, rather confusingly, as the boy I would have been, had I been more of a girl — Sarah Waters

For I could not want her now, more than I could a lover.
But I could not want a lover, more than I want freedom. — Sarah Waters

Undressing myself had no fun in it, now I had undressed her. — Sarah Waters

My parents were the first in our family to go to grammar school. My grandparents were in service. — Sarah Waters

No-one speaks. No-one moves ( ... ). We glide, softly, in silence, into our dark and separate hells — Sarah Waters

She closed her eyes and let the rain fall on her face,
and after another second, I could not have said what were raindrops, and what tears. — Sarah Waters

The bad blood rose in me, just like wine. — Sarah Waters

Neuralgia, so she had come along on her own. It was worth it, though. She — Sarah Waters

I've read all of Sarah Waters's novels which have been translated into Korean. — Park Chan-wook

It's a curious, wanting thing. — Sarah Waters

I'm interested in stories that aren't getting told: it's where my interests lie. — Sarah Waters

I'm taking you out, to meet my friends. I'm taking you,' she put a hand to my cheek, 'to my club. — Sarah Waters

There seemed no motion, no rhythm, in all the world, but that which I had set up, between her legs, with one wet fingertip. — Sarah Waters

But lurid touches were everywhere, she saw with dismay. It was as if a giant mouth had sucked a bag of boiled sweets and then given the house a lick. — Sarah Waters

For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of insurance policy against not counting? — Sarah Waters

You have been put too much to literary work,' he said on one of his visits, 'and that is the cause of your complaint. — Sarah Waters

I've ended up feeling fonder of 'The Paying Guests' than of any of my other novels. — Sarah Waters

If I seemed strange, and conscious of myself, what was that to her? We were all strange, there. — Sarah Waters

I don't want to understand you,' I say tiredly. 'I wish you would not speak at all. — Sarah Waters

It had three or four book-cases, all of them very full, and a rack of wands, with newspapers and magazines hung out upon them like dripping laundry. — Sarah Waters

I love film and, particularly, shorts. You don't get to see them often, and they're a great little form, like a short story. — Sarah Waters

She was like milk - too pale, too pure, too simple. She was made to be spoiled. — Sarah Waters

The Barbers had said they would arrive by three. It was like waiting to begin — Sarah Waters

My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then new affluence. — Sarah Waters

I must be better, she thought - realising it then, in that moment, for the first time. I must be OK. — Sarah Waters

He would start it, I think, at the gate of Millbank, the point that every visitor must pass when they arrive to make their tour of the gaols. — Sarah Waters

Miss Craven held up a pair she thought would fit me - monstrous great things they were, of course, and I thought she smiled as she held them. — Sarah Waters

I have some knowledge of the time that may be misspent, clinging to fictions and supposing them truths. — Sarah Waters

What does it say?" I said, when I had. She said, "It is filled with all the words for how I want you ... Look. — Sarah Waters

The day had begun to feel tinny: a pretend day, a dream day, that for some unaccountable reason she had to go on and on with as if it were real. — Sarah Waters

Oh, Frances, for somebody so clever you can be awfully dull sometimes. Don't you know the sort of mistake I mean? I was going to have a — Sarah Waters

seen something in their poses, for, 'Spoony! — Sarah Waters

She said, 'It's real, isn't it?'
Lilian answered after a pause, with a bowed head, in a murmur. 'Yes, it's real. It's the only real thing. — Sarah Waters

I'm not so sure about him. — Sarah Waters

She was at her truest, it seemed to her, in these tingling moments - these moments when, paradoxically, she was also at her most anonymous. — Sarah Waters

I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought to be deluded. — Sarah Waters

The madder he knows you to be, the better. Saves disappointment, don't it? — Sarah Waters

I give myself up to darkness; and wish I may never again be required to lift my head to the light. — Sarah Waters

Just so did they want to crush our friendship, now. It was against the rules. I — Sarah Waters

I've given up reading the papers. Since the world's so obviously bent on killing itself, I decided months ago to sit back and let it. — Sarah Waters

Weep all the artful tears you like. You shall never make my hard heart the softer. — Sarah Waters

But she was used to that by now, used to this kind of waiting, that was slack as worn elastic yet had the tautness of wire. — Sarah Waters

As far as Frances was concerned, gardening was simply open-air housework. — Sarah Waters

I wouldn't mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours. — Sarah Waters

Sometimes the shortest journeys take longest, don't they? — Sarah Waters

But the more I think it, the more I want her, the more my desire rises and swells. — Sarah Waters

Don't you know that it is the same for locksmiths with spirits as with love? Spirits laugh at them. — Sarah Waters

I sleep, and dream I am moving, swiftly, in a high-prowed boat, upon a dark and silent water. — Sarah Waters

It was a great childhood. We weren't especially wealthy or anything, but I felt I had a kind of safety and freedom. — Sarah Waters

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'. — Sarah Waters

Modern dances always seem to me so vulgar. So much hopping about; like a scene from a mental ward! — Sarah Waters

My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work. — Sarah Waters

We see what a punishing business it is, simply being alive. — Sarah Waters

And so you see it is love- not scorn,not malice; only love- that makes me harm her, in the end. — Sarah Waters

He would be cruel indeed, to put a passion in her, and then to punish her for feeling it. — Sarah Waters

Even ashes are a part of your freedom. — Sarah Waters

She was about to be married, and was frightened to death. And no-one would love her, ever again. — Sarah Waters

Now i begin to feel a longing so great, so sharp, i fear it will never be assuaged. i think it will mount, and mount, and make me mad, or kill me. — Sarah Waters

I am a sort of villain, and know other villains best. — Sarah Waters

The rest of us become narrow and mean when we live falsely. I'm sick to death of living falsely. I've been doing it for years. — Sarah Waters

Don't you be thinking,' she says, 'on things that are done and can't be changed. All right, dear girl? You think of the time to come. — Sarah Waters

Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled? — Sarah Waters

There is no patience so terrible as that of the deranged. — Sarah Waters

I barely knew I had skin before I met you. — Sarah Waters

Never occurred to her. She desperately tried to think through the implications of it. — Sarah Waters

Well, that was the clerk class for you. They might be completely without culture, but they certainly knew how to make themselves comfortable. — Sarah Waters

I used to hate flying. I would sit there, rigid, convinced that if I relaxed, the plane would drop out of the sky. — Sarah Waters

I love you, that is a simple thing to say...but my spirit does not love yours, it is entwined with it. — Sarah Waters

I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day. — Sarah Waters

life is crap but, every day is an experience — Sarah Waters

Everybody in my world knew that regular work was only another name for being robbed and dying of boredom. — Sarah Waters

She said that that was the disadvantage of bringing creatures into the house: one grew used to them, and then, one had the upset of their loss. — Sarah Waters

It was like kissing the darkness. As if the darkness had life, had a shape, had taste, was warm and glib. — Sarah Waters

I used to write at home, but it didn't ever occur to me to be a writer. — Sarah Waters

His feeling haunts and inhabits me, like a sickness. it covers me, like skin. — Sarah Waters

I do love the past but wouldn't want to live in it. — Sarah Waters

It was like a cure, being with Lilian. It made one feel like a piece of wax being cradled in a soft, warm palm. — Sarah Waters

Some things are so frightful that a bit of madness is the only sane response. You know that, don't you? — Sarah Waters

And evermore the waters worship God;
And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres
While listening to the music of the waves! — Sarah Josepha Hale

It was odd to see her stepping out of that gloomy place, like a pearl coming out of an oyster. — Sarah Waters

His throat bulges queerly, as men's throats do: as if inviting the blow that will crush it. — Sarah Waters

I'm sorry you aren't as brave as you thought you were. But don't punish me because of it. — Sarah Waters

The vase was placed upon my desk, and there were orange-blossoms in it - orange-blossoms, in an English winter! — Sarah Waters

Why is it we can never love the people we ought to? — Sarah Waters

She said, 'It is filled with all the words for how I want you. — Sarah Waters

I knew that Kitty and I felt just the same- only, of course, about different things. I should have remembered this, later. — Sarah Waters