Quotes by : Sarah Waters

One time, two years ago, I took a draught of morphia, meaning to end my life. My mother found me before....

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

It was heavy, and I staggered when I lifted it; but it was strangely satifying to have a real burden....

She shook her head, and closed her eyes. I felt her weariness then, and with it, my own. I felt it dark....

It is a world that is made of love. Did you think there is only the kind of love your sister has for....

She said that that was the disadvantage of bringing creatures into the house: one grew used to them,....

It's a curious, wanting thing.

I had loved Kitty -I would always love Kitty. But I had lived with her a kind of queer half-life, hiding....

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

Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?