Quotes from book

Fingersmith

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

“Even ashes are a part of your freedom.”

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

“It's a curious, wanting thing.”

“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.”

“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.”