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“I thought that I could make my life into a book that had no life or love in it. . . . Now I can see that my heart has crept across these pages, after all.” quote by Sarah Waters — Download Open image

““I thought that I could make my life into a book that had no life or love in it. . . . Now I can see that my heart has crept across these pages, after all.””

Sarah Waters

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

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

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“She loved these walks through London. She seemed, as she made them, to become porous, to soak in detail after detail; or else, like a battery to become charged. Yes, that was it, she thought, as she turned a corner: it wasn't a liquid creeping, it was a tingle, something electric, something produced as if by the friction of her…

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“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…

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

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