Sarah Waters, Fingersmith Quotes

I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart—so hard, it hurt me.

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.

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

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

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

But my thoughts were more like poisons. I had so many, they made me sick.

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