Sarah Waters 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

“There were about thirty of them, I think - all women; all seated at tables, bearing drinks and books and papers. You might have passed any one of them upon the street, and thought nothing; but the effect of their appearance all combined was rather queer. They were dressed, not strangely, but somehow distinctly. They wore skirts - but the kind of skirts a tailor might design if he were set, for a dare, to sew a bustle for a gent. Many seemed clad in walking-suits or riding-habits. Many wore pince-nez, or carried monocles on ribbons. There were one or two rather startling coiffures; and there were more neckties than I had ever seen brought together at any exclusively female ensemble.”
― Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet

“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