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Sarah Waters, née à Neyland, petite ville côtière du comté de Pembroke, au Pays de Galles, le 21 juillet 1966, est une écrivaine britannique ouvertement lesbienne. Elle vit actuellement dans le quartier de Kennington à Londres. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. juillet 1966
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Sarah Waters: Citations en anglais

“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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Sarah Waters livre The Little Stranger

Source: The Little Stranger

“I barely knew I had skin before I met you.”

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Sarah Waters livre The Paying Guests

Source: The Paying Guests

“It's a curious, wanting thing.”

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Sarah Waters livre Fingersmith

Source: Fingersmith

“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.”

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Sarah Waters livre Tipping the Velvet

Source: Tipping the Velvet

“Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?”

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Sarah Waters Affinity

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“What does it say?" I said, when I had. She said, "It is filled with all the words for how I want you… Look.”

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Sarah Waters livre Fingersmith

Source: Fingersmith

“.. this feeling haunts and inhabits me, like a sickness. it covers me, like skin.”

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Sarah Waters livre Fingersmith

Source: Fingersmith

“Some things are so frightful that a bit of madness is the only sane response. You know that, don’t you?”

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Sarah Waters livre The Paying Guests

Source: The Paying Guests

“Even ashes are a part of your freedom.”

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Sarah Waters livre Fingersmith

Source: Fingersmith

“Your twisting is done--you have the last thread of my heart. I wonder: when the thread grows slack, will you feel it?”

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Sarah Waters Affinity

Source: 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.”

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Sarah Waters livre Fingersmith

Source: Fingersmith

“We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed your organs of fancy.”

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Sarah Waters livre Fingersmith

Source: 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.”

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Sarah Waters livre Tipping the Velvet

Source: Tipping the Velvet

“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.”

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Sarah Waters The Night Watch

Source: The Night Watch

“I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought to be deluded.”

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Sarah Waters livre Fingersmith

Source: Fingersmith

“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.”

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Sarah Waters livre Tipping the Velvet

Source: Tipping the Velvet

“life is crap but, every day is an experience”

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Sarah Waters The Night Watch

Source: The Night Watch

“I knew that I couldn't lie beside her, without wanting to touch her. I couldn't have felt her breath come upon my mouth, without wanting to kiss her. And I couldn't have kissed her, without wanting to save her.”

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