"And perhaps there is a limit to the……" — Sarah Waters
"And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed."
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37 Quotes by Sarah Waters
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There is no patience so terrible as that of the deranged.
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I'll burn myself, or I'll cut myself. For a burn or a cut might be shown, might be nursed, might…
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For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of…
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I barely knew I had skin before I met you.
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Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling…
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Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the…
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We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself…
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She supposed that houses, after all - like the lives that were lived in them - were mostly made of…
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All unwillingly I opened my eyes - then I opened them wider, and lifted my head. The heat, my weariness,…
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Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?
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It's a curious, wanting thing.
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I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the…
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