Quotes by : Sarah Waters

I'm sorry you aren't as brave as you thought you were. But don't punish me because of it.

But, here was a curious thing. The more I tried to give up thinking of her, the more I said to myself,....

I had a very clear vision, of Selina with her hair about her shoulders, a crimson hat upon her head,....

They might be kind, I thought. They might be sensible and good. They will not be like you. But I did....

She was about to be married, and was frightened to death. And no-one would love her, ever again.

It made me giddy. It made me blush, worse than before. It was like liquor. It made me drunk. I drew away.....

She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remember....

We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which....

But my thoughts were more like poisons. I had so many, they made me sick.

For she was the only one, of all of them, to have spared me a pleasant word; and suddenly I longed for....