“ Don't panic. Midway through writing a novel, I have regularly experienced moments of bowel-curdling terror, as I contemplate the drivel on the screen before me and see beyond it, in quick succession,… Sarah Waters
“ I had loved Kitty -I would always love Kitty. But I had lived with her a kind of queer half-life, hiding from my own true self. Since then I had refused to love at all, had become - or so I thought -… 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
“ 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
“ And for a moment I though I would tell her, that it would be the easiest and the slightest thing imaginable- that after all, if anyone would understand it, she would. That I need only say, 'I am in lo… Sarah Waters
“ In short, Nance, even was you going to the very devil himself, your mother and I would rather see you fly from us in joy, than stay with us in sorrow - and grow, maybe, to hate us, for keeping you fro… Sarah Waters
“ They might be kind, I thought. They might be sensible and good. They will not be like you. But I did not say it. I knew it would mean nothing to her. I said something - something ordinary and mild, I… Sarah Waters
“ It is a world that is made of love. Did you think there is only the kind of love your sister has for her husband? Did you think there must be here, a man with whiskers, and over here, a lady in a gown… 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
“ I shivered again, remembering. I put the tip of one finger to my tongue. It tasted sharp—like vinegar, like blood.Like money. Sarah Waters
“ I had a very clear vision, of Selina with her hair about her shoulders, a crimson hat upon her head, a velvet coat, ice-skates - I must have been remembering some picture. I imagined myself beside her… Sarah Waters
“ But it's the simple and the good that are meant to suffer in this world—ain't it, though! Sarah Waters
“ It made me giddy. It made me blush, worse than before. It was like liquor. It made me drunk. I drew away. When her breath came now upon my mouth, it came very cold. My mouth was wet, from hers. I said… 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
“ I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart—so hard, it hurt me. Sarah Waters
