“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 VelvetSource: Tipping the Velvet
“.. this feeling haunts and inhabits me, like a sickness. it covers me, like skin.”Sarah Waters book FingersmithSource: Fingersmith
“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 WatchSource: The Night Watch
“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 VelvetSource: Tipping the Velvet