Quotes by : Sarah Waters

The vase was placed upon my desk, and there were orange-blossoms in it—orange-blossoms, in an English....

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

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

But the more I think it, the more I want her, the more my desire rises and swells.

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

It's a curious, wanting thing.

She raised her head when she heard my step, and her gaze met my own, over the matron's dipping shoulder,....

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

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?