Love Quote by Sarah Waters

“Miss Craven held up a pair she thought would fit me—monstrous great things they were, of course, and I thought she smiled as she…

— Sarah Waters

I barely knew I had skin before I met you.

— Sarah Waters

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

— Sarah Waters

My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work.

— Sarah Waters

Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out…

— Sarah Waters

For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of insurance policy against not…

— Sarah Waters

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

— Sarah Waters

“No-one speaks. No-one moves (…). We glide, softly, in silence, into our dark and separate hells”

— Sarah Waters

“Oh, for shame! Nancy, have you never seen Florrie's face in a chrysanthemum, or a rose?' 'Never.' I said. 'Though there was a flounder…

— Sarah Waters

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

— Sarah Waters