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“She wished for a moment that they were all children again. It still seemed extraordinary to her, that everything had turned out the way it had.” quote by Sarah Waters — Download Open image

““She wished for a moment that they were all children again. It still seemed extraordinary to her, that everything had turned out the way it had.””

Sarah Waters

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“Now, from the crown of my head to the curve of my toe-nails, there was an unguent for every part of me - oil for my eyebrows and cream for my lashes; a jar of tooth-powder, a box of blanc-de-perle; polish for my fingernails and a scarlet stick to redden my mouth; tweezers for drawing the hairs from my nipples,…

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“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…

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I barely knew I had skin before I met you.

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

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

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

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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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