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Sarah Waters Biography

Sarah Waters (born 21 July 1966) is a Welsh novelist. She is best known for her novels set in Victorian society and featuring lesbian protagonists, such as Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith.

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

Feelings, Haunts, Like, Sickness, Skins

There is no patience so terrible as that of the deranged.

Deranged, No Patience, Patience, Terrible

life is crap but, every day is an experience

Crap, Day, Experience, Life, Life Is

I wouldnt mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours.

Mind, Parlours, Victorian, Wall, Wouldnt

Weep all the artful tears you like. You shall never make my hard heart the softer.

Heart, Tears, Like You, Weep, Make

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.

Bricks, House, Houses, Like, Space, Supposed

I've just finished a series of Olivia Manning novels. She's best known for two trilogies: Balkan Trilogy and Levant Trilogy. The six novels are continuous and contain the same set of characters. They are based on Manning's experiences in Eastern Europe and Egypt during the Second World War. Each novel is a wonderful picture of the peculiar British expatriate culture and what was happening during the war. She's one of those brilliant women who write very well about domestic relationships. All the books are slim, and it's easy to gallop through them.

Book, Character, Continuous, Known, Six, War

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.

Being In Love, Cage, Cages, Canary, Like, Love You

The bad blood rose in me, just like wine.

Blood, Like, Rose, Wine

We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much we had to hide our love, however guarded we had to be about our pleasure, I could not long be miserable about a thing so very sweet. Nor, in my gladness, could I quite believe that anybody would be anything but happy for me if only they knew.

Believe, Hide, Oysters, Sweet, Thing, Together

I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.

Academic, Novelist, Novelists, Rate, Thought

All unwillingly I opened my eyes - then I opened them wider, and lifted my head. The heat, my weariness, were quite forgotten. Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this there was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen.

Eye, Girl, Heat, Shadow, Shaft, Stage

It's a curious, wanting thing.

Curious, Lust, Thing, Wanting

How will a person know, Selina, when the soul that has the affinity with hers is near it?" She answered, "She will know. Does she look for air, before she breathes it? This love will be guided to her; and when it comes, she will know. And she will do anything to keep that love about her, then. Because to lose it will be like a death to her.

Air, Death, Doe, Know, Look, Soul

I'll burn myself, or I'll cut myself. For a burn or a cut might be shown, might be nursed, might scar or heal, would be a miserable kind of emblem; would anyway be there, on the surface of her body, rather than corroding it from within. Now the thought came to her again, that she might scar herself in some way. It came, like the solution to a problem: I won't be doing it like some hysterical girl. I won't be hoping she'll come catch me at it. It won't be like lying on the sitting-room floor. I'll be doing it for myself, as a secret.

Cutting, Girl, Heal, Lying, Miserable, Solution

Your heart-as you call it-and hers are alike, after all: they are like mine, like everyone's. They resemble nothing so much as those meters you will find on gas-pipes: they only perk up and start pumping when you drop coins in.

Call, Coins, Heart, Meter, Nothing

I used to hate flying. I would sit there, rigid, convinced that if I relaxed, the plane would drop out of the sky.

Flying, Hate, Plane, Rigid, Sit, Sky

I barely knew I had skin before I met you.

Barely, Before I Met You, Love, Met, Skin, Skins

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

Carry, Clearly, Easily, Gentleman, Voice, Voices

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.

Breath, Kissing, Lie, Lying, Mouths, Save

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