“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 and get another to replace her.” Sarah Waters book Tipping the Velvet Source: Tipping the Velvet Love
“.. this feeling haunts and inhabits me, like a sickness. it covers me, like skin.” Sarah Waters book Fingersmith Source: Fingersmith Feeling
“She supposed that houses, after all - like the lives that were lived in them - were mostly made of space. It was the spaces, in fact, which counted, rather than the bricks.” Sarah Waters The Night Watch Source: The Night Watch Housing
“With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk.” Sarah Waters book Tipping the Velvet Source: Tipping the Velvet Heart