“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 StrangerSource: The Little Stranger
“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 AffinitySource: Affinity
“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 FingersmithSource: Fingersmith
“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 VelvetSource: Tipping the Velvet
“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