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.

Don't panic. Midway through writing a novel, I have regularly experienced moments of bowel-curdling terror,....

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

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

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

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

Marriages are like pianos. They go in and out of tune.

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

And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a....

And for a moment I though I would tell her, that it would be the easiest and the slightest thing imaginable-....