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Sarah Waters Quotes: "I barely knew I had skin before I met you."

I barely knew I had skin before I met you.



Sarah Waters Quotes: "Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her."

Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her.




Sarah Waters Quotes: "I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one."

I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.



Sarah Waters Quotes: "Even ashes are a part of your freedom."

Even ashes are a part of your freedom.




Sarah Waters Quotes: "I do love the past but wouldnt want to live in it."

I do love the past but wouldnt want to live in it.



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

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



Sarah Waters Quotes: "Why is it we can never love the people we ought to?"

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




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

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



Sarah Waters Quotes: "With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk."

With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk.



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

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 Quotes: "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?"

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 Quotes: "She supposed that houses, after all - like the lives that were lived in them - were mostly made of space. It was the spaces, in fact, which counted, rather than the bricks."

She supposed that houses, after all - like the lives that were lived in them - were mostly made of space. It was the spaces, in fact, which counted, rather than the bricks.




Sarah Waters Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "The bad blood rose in me, just like wine."

The bad blood rose in me, just like wine.



Sarah Waters Quotes: "..this feeling haunts and inhabits me, like a sickness. it covers me, like skin."

..this feeling haunts and inhabits me, like a sickness. it covers me, like skin.



Sarah Waters Quotes: "life is crap but, every day is an experience"

life is crap but, every day is an experience



Sarah Waters Quotes: "It was heavy, and I staggered when I lifted it; but it was strangely satifying to have a real burden upon my shoulders – a kind of counterweight to my terrible heaviness of heart."

It was heavy, and I staggered when I lifted it; but it was strangely satifying to have a real burden upon my shoulders – a kind of counterweight to my terrible heaviness of heart.



Sarah Waters Quotes: "It's a curious, wanting thing."

It's a curious, wanting thing.



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

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



Sarah Waters Quotes: ".. 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."

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

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 Quotes: "I wouldnt mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours."

I wouldnt mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours.



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

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 Quotes: "All I can do is write about whatever grabs me."

All I can do is write about whatever grabs me.



Sarah Waters Quotes: "We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed your organs of fancy."

We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed your organs of fancy.



Sarah Waters Quotes: "There is no patience so terrible as that of the deranged."

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



Sarah Waters Quotes: "Marriages are like pianos. They go in and out of tune."

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



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

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



Sarah Waters Quotes: "She wished for a moment that they were all children again. It still seemed extraordinary to her, that everything had turned out the way it had."

She wished for a moment that they were all children again. It still seemed extraordinary to her, that everything had turned out the way it had.



Sarah Waters Quotes: "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."

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

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



Sarah Waters Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "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."

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

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



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

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



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

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



Sarah Waters Quotes: "Undressing myself had no fun in it, now I had undressed her."

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



Sarah Waters Quotes: "But my thoughts were more like poisons. I had so many, they made me sick."

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



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

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



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

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



Sarah Waters Quotes: "Tricky was a plain-faced man with a very handsome voice - a voice like the sound of a clarinet, at once liquid and penetrating, and lovely to listen to."

Tricky was a plain-faced man with a very handsome voice - a voice like the sound of a clarinet, at once liquid and penetrating, and lovely to listen to.