Sarah Waters

“PIGEON MY ARSE!”

— Sarah Waters

It's a curious, wanting thing.

— Sarah Waters

I do love the past but wouldnt want to live in it.

— Sarah Waters

There is no patience so terrible as that of the deranged.

— Sarah Waters

“Now she has turned up, saying all the things I dreamed she'd say.”

— Sarah Waters

I wouldnt mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours.

— Sarah Waters

All I can do is write about whatever grabs me.

— Sarah Waters

Even ashes are a part of your freedom.

— Sarah Waters

Why is it we can never love the people we ought to?

— Sarah Waters

I do love the past but wouldn't want to live in it.

— Sarah Waters

My parents were the first in our family to go to grammar school. My grandparents were in service.

— Sarah Waters

“My locket hangs in my closet beside the glass, the only shining thing among so many shadows.”

— Sarah Waters

“They was told it too, perhaps. Does that make it true? Maybe. Maybe not.”

— Sarah Waters

I love film and, particularly, shorts. You don't get to see them often, and they're a great little form, like a short…

— Sarah Waters

“The rest of us become narrow and mean when we live falsely. I'm sick to death of living falsely. I've been doing…

— Sarah Waters

Sometimes I think I'd be perfectly happy to go on rewriting 'Tipping the Velvet' forever because it was so much fun.

— Sarah Waters

I've ended up feeling fonder of 'The Paying Guests' than of any of my other novels.

— Sarah Waters

“And yet, I seemed to feel my eyes bound, too, with bands of silk. And at my throat there was a velvet…

— Sarah Waters

“It was done the day you took me to that house in Bryanston Square, she said. Or even, the time before that,…

— Sarah Waters

I love research. Sometimes I think writing novels is just an excuse to allow myself this leisurely time of getting to know…

— Sarah Waters

“She said, 'It's real, isn't it?' Lilian answered after a pause, with a bowed head, in a murmur. 'Yes, it's real. It's…

— Sarah Waters

I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and…

— Sarah Waters

“How easy it was, she thought unhappily as she did it, for men and women. They could stand in a street and…

— Sarah Waters

“I would go down to the kitchen, saying 'How do you do?' to whoever I met there: ...'How are you, Mrs. Cakebread?'…

— Sarah Waters

“I should have been sorry for her, at any other time; but for now if they had laid her and ten more…

— Sarah Waters

“What did she want? Frances couldn't tell. She wasn't sure she cared any more. There had been too much dancing back and…

— Sarah Waters

“...She worked briskly and efficiently, taking her brush and pan from the drawing-room to the top of the stairs and making her…

— Sarah Waters

“Oh, but this,' I think I say, 'is perfect! This is all I have longed for! What are you gazing at? Do…

— Sarah Waters

“Every poor lady that came to me, that touched my hand, that drew a small part of my spirit from me to…

— Sarah Waters

“It is a world that is made of love. Did you think there is only the kind of love your sister knows…

— Sarah Waters

“The dark has a eased a little. There has been a street-lamp burning, that has lit the threads of the bleached net…

— Sarah Waters

“See here, look at my hands. Say there’s a cobweb spun between them. It’s my ambition. And at its centre there’s a…

— Sarah Waters

“He had the organ on a set of pram wheels; it appeared to be held together with string. Its sound was so…

— Sarah Waters

“She loved these walks through London. She seemed, as she made them, to become porous, to soak in detail after detail; or…

— Sarah Waters

I've never managed to get very far with Henry James.

— Sarah Waters

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

— Sarah Waters

I barely knew I had skin before I met you.

— Sarah Waters

The bad blood rose in me, just like wine.

— Sarah Waters

“life is crap but, every day is an experience”

— Sarah Waters

“I knew that Kitty and I felt just the same- only, of course, about different things. I should have remembered this, later.”

— Sarah Waters