Sarah Waters Quotes

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

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?

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

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.

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