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July 21, 1966
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July 21, 1966
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, the air coming sharply into our mouths. I imagined how it would be if I took her, not to Italy, but only to Marishes, to my sister's house; if I sat with her at supper, and shared her room, and kissed 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, in a whisper,'Do you feel it?
Sarah Waters
She said, 'It is filled with all the words for how I want you.
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 felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart—so hard, it hurt me.
Sarah Waters