Fingersmith Quotes

“I give myself up to darkness; and wish I may never again be required to lift my head to the light.”
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

“But the more I think it, the more I want her, the more my desire rises and swells.”
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

“I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart—so hard, it hurt me.”
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

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

“She said, 'It is filled with all the words for how I want you.”
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

“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, in a whisper,
'Do you feel it?”
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

“You thought her a pigeon. Pigeon, my arse. That bitch knew everything. She had been in on it from the start.”
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

“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, Fingersmith