“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.” Sarah Waters book The Little Stranger Source: The Little Stranger Heartbreaking , Moving On , Water , Heart
“Your twisting is done--you have the last thread of my heart. I wonder: when the thread grows slack, will you feel it?” Sarah Waters Affinity Source: Affinity Feeling , Heart
“But, here was a curious thing. The more I tried to give up thinking of her, the more I said to myself, 'She's nothing to you', the harder I tried to pluck the idea of her out of my heart, the more she stayed there.” Sarah Waters book Fingersmith Source: Fingersmith Idea , Thinking , Heart
“It was heavy, and I staggered when I lifted it; but it was strangely satifying to have a real burden upon my shoulders – a kind of counterweight to my terrible heaviness of heart.” Sarah Waters book Tipping the Velvet Source: Tipping the Velvet Heart
“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