“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
“What does it say?" I said, when I had. She said, "It is filled with all the words for how I want you… Look.”Sarah Waters book FingersmithSource: Fingersmith
“.. this feeling haunts and inhabits me, like a sickness. it covers me, like skin.”Sarah Waters book FingersmithSource: 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.”Sarah Waters book FingersmithSource: Fingersmith
“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.”Sarah Waters book FingersmithSource: Fingersmith
